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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levy

/ˈlɛ.vi/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of Levi

Forms levies levying levied Levie

  1. verb (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. “to levy a tax”
  2. verb To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
  3. verb To draft someone into military service.
  4. verb To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
  5. verb To wage war.
  6. verb To raise, as a siege.
  7. verb (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
  8. noun The act of levying.
  9. noun A conscription action.
  10. noun A tax paid in money.
  11. noun A tax in kind.
  12. noun Requisitioned supplies.
  13. noun A body of conscripts.
  14. noun (obsolete, slang) A shilling.
  15. noun (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
  16. proper noun A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
  17. proper noun A male given name.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
  19. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina, United States.
  20. proper noun A surname from Czech.

Synonyms

levy en masse impose recruit raise

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from
lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).

Contraction of elevenpence.

From the biblical name Levi. Unlike the biblical spelling, which descended through continuous liturgical traditions that preserved final secondary stress (causing it to shift to IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈliːvaɪ/), the surname was re-introduced into English after the 1650s via French Lévy and German Levy. The pronunciation IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈlɛvi/ arose from assimilation to the common noun levy, while IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈliːvi/ preserves the historical long vowel of the first syllable without final stress.

From Czech Levý, from the adjective levý (“left”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eight of a dollar (or 12
  2. noun The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. A levy of all the men left under sixty. Thirlwall.
  3. noun That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. " The Irish levies." Macaulay.
  4. verb To raise, as a siege. [Obs.] Holland.

Etymology [A contr. of elevenpence or elevenpenny bit.]

Etymology [F. levée, fr. lever to raise. See Lever, and cf. Lever.]

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