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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masker

/ˈmæskə(ɹ)/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms maskers maskering maskered

  1. verb (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To render giddy or senseless
  2. verb (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be bewildered.
  3. verb (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To choke; stifle.
  4. verb (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To decay; rust.
  5. noun One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
  6. noun That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

confuse bewilder stupefy masquerader masquer

Etymology

From Middle English *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare Middle English bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”). More at mask.

From mask + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
  2. verb To confuse; to stupefy. [Obs.] Holland.

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