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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levant

/ləˈvɑnt/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms levants levanting levanted the Levant

  1. noun A disappearing or absconding after losing a bet.
  2. verb To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
  3. adjective (heraldry) Rising, of an animal.
  4. adjective (law) Rising or having risen from rest; said of cattle.
  5. adjective (poetic) Eastern.
  6. proper noun A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
  7. proper noun A census-designated place in Thomas County, Kansas.
  8. proper noun A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
  9. noun An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea.
  10. noun A type of leather.

Synonyms

oriental eastern Mashreq Greater Syria levanter Levant morocco

Antonyms

occidental western ponent

Etymology

Transferral use of Levant, from French levant. Compare French faire voile en Levant (“to sail eastward”), literally: set the sail with the Levant, an easterly wind that blows in the Mediterranean Sea. Ultimately from Latin levō + -ant.

From French levant.

Borrowed from French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising”), form of lever (“to rise”), from Latin levō (“to rise”) (cf. also the present participle levāns), from levis (“light, not heavy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Rising or having risen from rest; --said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
  2. noun The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
  3. noun A levanter (the wind so called).
  4. adjective Eastern. [Obs.]

Etymology [F., p. pr. of lever to raise.]

Etymology [It. levante the point where the sum rises, the east, the Levant, fr.levare to raise, levarsi to rise: cf. F. levant. See Lever.]

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