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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mercy

UK /ˈmɜːsi/ · US /ˈmɝsi/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms mercies mercying mercied Mercys

  1. noun (uncountable) Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. “She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate. “Have mercy on the poor and assist them if you can.”
  3. noun (uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion. “Mercy is one of his many virtues.”
  4. noun (countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
  5. noun (countable) A blessing; something to be thankful for. “It was a mercy that we were not inside when the roof collapsed”
  6. noun (uncountable) A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in.
  7. verb To feel mercy
  8. verb To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy
  9. interjection Expressing surprise or alarm. “Mercy! Look at the state of you!”
  10. proper noun A female given name from English.
  11. proper noun A surname from French.

Synonyms

ruth kindness leniency quarter pity sympathy bowels commiseration compassion empathy fellow feeling remorse rue tenderheartedness loving-kindness clemency mercifulness

Antonyms

mercilessness ruthlessness cruelty

Etymology

From Middle English mercy, merci, from Anglo-Norman merci (compare continental Old French merci, mercit), from Latin mercēs (“wages, fee, price”), from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Displaced native Old English mildheortnes (literally "mildheartedness"). Cognate with French merci, whence the doublet merci.

From mercy in the 17th century; one of the less common Puritan virtue names. In modern use sometimes used to anglicize Spanish Mercedes.

Borrowed from French Mercy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
  2. noun Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence. Luke x. 37.

Etymology [OE. merci, F. merci, L. merces, mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is probmerere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and cf. Amerce.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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