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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mirror

UK /ˈmɪɹə/ · US /ˈmiɹɚ/ noun, verb

Forms mirrors mirroring mirrored mirrour myrrhor

  1. noun A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. “I had a look in the mirror to see if the blood had come off my face.”
  2. noun (figuratively) An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another. “His story is a mirror into the life of orphans growing up.”
  3. noun (computing, Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site. “Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.”
  4. noun A mirror carp.
  5. noun (historical) An ethical-didactic treatise that details exemplary conduct through models, advising kings, princes, clergy, etc. on how to behave.
  6. verb (transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.
  7. verb (transitive) To act as a reflection of, either by being identical to, or by being identical but reversed. “The placement of the paintings mirrored the positions of the windows on the opposite wall.”
  8. verb (transitive, intransitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely. “He tried to mirror Elvis's life by copying his fashion and mannerisms.”
  9. verb (transitive, computing, Internet) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).

Synonyms

glass looking-glass mimic

Etymology

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
  2. noun That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.
  3. verb To reflect, as in a mirror.

Etymology [OE. mirour, F. miroir, OF. also mireor, fr. (assumed) LL. miratorium, fr. mirare to look at, L. mirari to wonder. See Marvel, and cf. Miracle, Mirador.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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