Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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leaven

/ˈlɛv.ən/ noun, verb

Forms leavens leavening leavened leven

  1. noun Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
  2. noun (figurative) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
  3. noun (Judaism) Chametz.
  4. verb (transitive) To add a leavening agent. “Yeast is used to leaven bread, making it rise during baking.”
  5. verb (transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.
  6. verb (transitive, figuratively) To temper an action, decision, attitude, characteristic, etc.
  7. verb (transitive, figuratively) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate. “The comedian's jokes helped leaven the atmosphere during the serious meeting.”
  8. verb To rise or become larger; to prove.

Synonyms

leavening agent raising agent leavening raise prove

Etymology

From Middle English levayn, borrowed from Old French levain, from Vulgar Latin *levāmen, a noun based on Latin levō (“raise”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
  2. noun Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
  3. verb To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
  4. verb To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Etymology [OE. levain, levein, F. levain, L. levamen alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that which raises, fr. levare to raise. See Lever, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “leaven”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “leaven” (best matches first).