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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livery

/ˈlɪv(ə)ɹi/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms liveries liverying liveried liveray liverie

  1. noun Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
  2. noun The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
  3. noun The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles. “The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.”
  4. noun (US) A taxicab or limousine.
  5. noun (law) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
  6. noun (law) The writ by which property is obtained.
  7. noun (historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
  8. noun (historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
  9. verb (transitive, archaic) To clothe. “He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.”
  10. adjective Like liver.
  11. adjective Queasy, liverish.

Synonyms

delivery legal transfer bilious liverish

Etymology

From Middle English livery, liveree, from Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.

From Middle English *livery, from Old English lifriġ (“relating to the liver, livery”), equivalent to liver + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.
  2. noun Release from wardship; deliverance.
  3. verb To clothe in, or as in, livery. Shak.

Etymology [OE. livere, F. livrée, formerly, a gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to deliver up. See Liberate.]

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