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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lumber

UK /ˈlʌm.bə/ · US /ˈlʌm.bɚ/ noun, verb

Forms lumbers lumbering lumbered

  1. noun (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
  2. noun (now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
  3. noun (figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.
  4. noun (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  5. noun (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
  6. noun (slang, vulgar) An erect penis.
  7. verb (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
  8. verb (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on. “They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.”
  9. verb To heap together in disorder.
  10. verb To fill or encumber with lumber. “to lumber up a room”
  11. verb (transitive, slang, obsolete) To pawn (goods).

Synonyms

timber wood baseball bat pound log

Etymology

Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference for the noun was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move"; Online Etymological Dictionary thinks this may derive from the same root as lame. Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England. Compare English lumpish.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.]
  2. noun Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  3. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." Rymer.
  4. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

Etymology [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard.]

Etymology [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.]

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

Sanskrit

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