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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liver

UK /ˈlɪvə/ · US /ˈlɪvɚ/ noun, adjective

Forms livers

  1. noun (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. “Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.”
  2. noun (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food. “I'd like some goose liver pate.”
  3. noun A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
  4. noun (obsolete chemistry) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color. “He gave his horse some liver of antimony.”
  5. adjective Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
  6. noun (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
  7. noun Someone who is alive: one of the living.
  8. noun Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
  9. adjective (rare) From or pertaining to Liverpool.

Synonyms

Scouse Liverpudlian liver-colored

Etymology

From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”),German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, and West Frisian lever (“liver”), Faroese livur (“liver”), Icelandic lifur (“liver”). Related to live.

From Middle English lyvere, livere, equivalent to live + -er.

From live (adjective) + -(e)r.

Back-formation from Liverpool, possibly influenced by liver bird.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, lives.
  2. noun A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
  3. noun A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
  4. noun The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); --said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.

Etymology [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG. lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. live, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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