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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arch

UK /ɑːt͡ʃ/ · US /ɑɹt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms arches arching arched archer archest

  1. noun An inverted U shape.
  2. noun An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
  3. noun (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
  4. noun Any place covered by an arch; an archway. “to pass into the arch of a bridge”
  5. noun (archaic, geometry) An arc; a part of a curve.
  6. noun A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
  7. noun (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
  8. verb (transitive) To form into an arch shape. “The cat arched its back.”
  9. verb (transitive) To cover with an arch or arches.
  10. adjective Knowing, clever, mischievous. “I attempted to hide my emotions, but an arch remark escaped my lips.”
  11. adjective (Ireland) Cute, sly, prematurely wise.
  12. adjective Principal; primary. “They were arch enemies.”
  13. noun (obsolete) A chief.
  14. noun (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
  15. noun (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture. “In the Linux kernel, arch-specific code lives in the arch directory of the source tree.”
  16. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Archibald and Archie.

Synonyms

god archway curve arc condescending patronizing patronising impish implike mischievous pixilated prankish puckish wicked

Etymology

From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels and Old English hwealf.

From the prefix arch-. "Principal" is the original sense; "mischievous" is via onetime frequent collocation with rogue, knave, etc.

Clipping of Archibald or Archie.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any part of a curved line.
  2. noun (a) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
  3. verb To cover with an arch or arches.
  4. verb To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

Etymology [F. arche, fr. LL. arca, for arcus. See Arc.]

Etymology [See Arch-, pref.]

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

Sanskrit

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