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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lure

/lɵː/ noun, verb

Forms lures luring lured

  1. noun (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
  2. noun (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
  3. noun (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
  4. noun A velvet smoothing brush.
  5. verb (transitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
  6. verb (transitive) To attract fish with a lure.
  7. verb (transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.

Synonyms

entice enticement come-on bait hook sweetener decoy tempt

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).

Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; --used by falconers in recalling hawks. Shak.
  2. noun Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy. Milton.
  3. verb To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
  4. verb To recall a hawk or other animal.

Etymology [OF. loire, loirre, loerre, F. leurre lure, decoy; of German origin; cf. MHG. luoder, G. luder lure, carrion.]

Etymology [OF. loirer, loirier, F. leurrer. See Lure, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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