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

mole

UK /məʊl/ · US /mol/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of moll

Forms moles moling moled mool moule mowle mold mol

  1. noun A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
  2. noun Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
  3. noun Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
  4. noun (espionage) An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
  5. noun A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
  6. noun A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
  7. verb (transitive) To create a network of channels in (waterlogged soil) to improve drainage.
  8. noun (slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A moll, a bitch, a slut.
  9. noun (nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
  10. noun (rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
  11. noun (historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
  12. noun (chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]
  13. noun A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
  14. noun Any of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America countries, especially one that contains chocolate and is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
  15. proper noun A river in Surrey, England, tributary to the Thames.
  16. proper noun A river in Devon, England, tributary to the Taw.
  17. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

birthmark nevus naevus nævus talpid molewarp mouldwarp moll gram molecule mol counterspy breakwater groin groyne bulwark seawall jetty

Etymology

From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).
Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).

From Middle English molle, molde, mole (“mole”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *mol(h), from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).
Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian Molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), German Low German Mol, Mul, Mull (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).
Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.

From moll (from Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary), influenced by the spelling of the word mole (“an internal spy”), and due to /mɒl/ and /məʊl/ merging as [ˈmɔʊɫ] in the Australian accent.

From French môle or Latin mōles (“mass, heap, rock”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures. [Obs.]
  2. noun A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
  3. noun A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
  4. noun A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself. Brande & C.

Etymology [AS. mal; akin to OHG. meil, Goth. mail Cf. Mail a spot.]

Etymology [L. mola.]

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

Sanskrit

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

All 25 Sanskrit matches →