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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mellow

UK /ˈmɛləʊ/ · US /ˈmɛloʊ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms mellower mellowest mellows mellowing mellowed

  1. adjective (also figuratively, of fruit) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp. “a mellow apple”
  2. adjective (also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
  3. adjective (of soil) Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
  4. adjective (of leaves, seeds, plants, etc.) Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
  5. adjective (of a place, or the climate or weather) Fruitful and warm.
  6. adjective (of colour, sound, style, etc.) Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
  7. adjective Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
  8. adjective Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, calm, relaxed.
  9. noun The property of being mellow; mellowness.
  10. noun (specifically) A comfortable or relaxed mood.
  11. noun (African-American Vernacular) Also main mellow: a close friend or lover.
  12. verb To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
  13. verb To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
  14. verb (archaic except UK, regional) To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
  15. verb To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
  16. verb To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience. “The fervour of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.”
  17. verb (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
  18. verb (also reflexive, originally US, informal) Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
  19. verb (of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
  20. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

mellowy cushiony flabby flaccid flexible soft spongy malleable moldable pliable tender yielding zate grounded sanguine calm steady collected composed cool-headed melt mellow out laid-back mellowed high mellowly

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English melowe, melwe (“ripe, mellow; juicy; sweet”) [and other forms]; further etymology uncertain, possibly:
* from an attributive use of melow, melowe, melewe, mele (“meal from ground grain or legumes; flour; kernel of barley or lentils”) [and other forms], from Old English melo, melu (“meal (edible part of a grain or pulse); flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“ground corn; meal; flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush; to grind”); or
* a variant of Middle English merow, merowe, meruw (“soft, tender; of a person: frail; of love: unstable, variable”) [and other forms], from Old English meru, mearu (“soft, tender; delicate, frail; callow”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *marwaz (“soft, mellow; brittle, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer(w)- (“to rub; to pack”).
The noun and verb are both derived from the adjective. The etymology of noun sense 3 (“close friend; lover”) is unknown, but may also be derived from the adjective.
* Dutch murw (“tender”)
* German mürbe (“soft, tender”)
* German Low German möör (“tender”)
* Old Norse mör (“tender; aching”) (Icelandic meyr (“tender”))
* Saterland Frisian muur (“tender”)
* West Frisian murf (“tender”)

Perhaps a variant of Mellor.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
  2. adjective Hence: (a) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. "Mellow glebe." Drayton (b) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; --said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. "The mellow horn." Wordsworth. "The mellow-tasted Burgundy." Thomson.
  3. verb To make mellow. Shak.
  4. verb To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. "Prosperity begins to mellow." Shak.

Etymology [OE. melwe; cf. AS. mearu soft, D. murw, Prov. G. mollig soft, D. malsch, and E. meal flour.]

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

Sanskrit

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