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

ashen

/ˈæʃ.ən/ adjective, verb

Forms ashens ashening ashened

  1. adjective Made from the wood of the ash-tree. “An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.”
  2. adjective Of or resembling ashes. “A fine, ashen dust hung in the air.”
  3. adjective Ash-colored; pale; anemic “His ashen face belied his claims of good health.”
  4. adjective Appalled; upset.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy
  6. verb (ambitransitive) To make or become pale

Synonyms

ashy cineraceous cinereous blanched bloodless livid white

Etymology

From Middle English asshen, aisshen, esscen, from Old English æsċen (“made of ashwood”), equivalent to ash + -en (“made or consisting of”). Cognate with Scots aschin, eschin (“ashen”).

From Middle English asshen, axen (“ash-colored; pale; lifeless”). By surface analysis, ash + -en (“made or consisting of”).

From ash + -en (verbal suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." Dryden.
  2. adjective Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
  3. noun obs. pl. for Ashes. Chaucer.

Etymology [See Ash, the tree.]

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