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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merry

/ˈmɛ.ɹi/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms merrier merriest merries merie merrie mery

  1. adjective Jolly and full of high spirits; happy. “We had a very merry Christmas.”
  2. adjective Festive and full of fun and laughter. “Everyone was merry at the party.”
  3. adjective Brisk. “The play moved along at a merry pace.”
  4. adjective Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight. “a merry jest”
  5. adjective (euphemistic) Drunk; tipsy. “Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.”
  6. noun An English wild cherry.
  7. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a merry person.
  8. proper noun A female given name from merry.
  9. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Mercy.
  10. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Meredith.

Synonyms

cheerful content ecstatic exultant gay happy jovial joyful pleased berserk blissed out blithe buoyant chirpy blithesome bonnie bright cheerly cheery chuffed jocund jolly mirthful festal festive alert brisk lively rattling snappy

Antonyms

miserable unhappy

Etymology

From Middle English myrie, merie, mery, from Old English myrġe, myriġe (“pleasing, agreeable; pleasant, sweet, delightful; melodious”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgī (“short, slow, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short”). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry”), Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant, agreeable, joyful”), Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine”), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow”), Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”). Doublet of brief.

From French merise.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
  2. adjective Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
  3. noun A kind of wild red cherry.

Etymology [OE. merie, mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and English meanings coming from the idea of making the time seem short. Cf. Mirth.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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