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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

legume

/ˈlɛɡ.juːm/ noun, proper noun

Forms legumes

  1. noun (botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
  2. noun (botany) Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
  3. noun (botany) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
  4. proper noun A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Synonyms

legumen leguminous plant

Etymology

Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
  2. noun pl.

Etymology [F. légume, L. legumen, fr. legere to gather. So called because they may be gathered without cutting. See Legend.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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