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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

milky

/ˈmɪlki/ adjective

Forms milkier milkiest

  1. adjective Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
  2. adjective (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  3. adjective (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk. “milky cocoa    milky tea”
  4. adjective (of grains) Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
  5. adjective (informal) Cowardly.
  6. adjective (informal) Immature, childish.
  7. adjective (obsolete) Producing milk, lactating.

Synonyms

lacteous lactiferous fearful infantile lactifluous nursing with milk nithing puerile milklike whitish

Etymology

From Middle English mylky, melky; from Old English *meolciġ, from Proto-West Germanic *melukig, from Proto-Germanic *melukigaz. Equivalent to milk + -y.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian moalkig (“milky”), West Frisian molkich (“milky”), Dutch melkig (“milky”), German Low German melkig (“milky”), German milchig (“milky”), Danish mælkig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”), Icelandic mjólkugur (“milky”). Doublet of milchig.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Consisting of, or containing, milk.
  2. adjective Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.

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

Sanskrit

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

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