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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parcel

UK [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ] · US /ˈpɑɹsəl/ noun, verb, adverb

Forms parcels parceling parcelling parceled parcelled

  1. noun A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport. “I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.”
  2. noun An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  3. noun An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
  4. noun A division of land bought and sold as a unit. “I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.”
  5. noun (obsolete) A group of birds.
  6. noun An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  7. noun A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  8. noun A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. “A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.”
  9. verb To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  10. verb To wrap a strip around the end of a rope. “Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.”
  11. verb To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.
  12. verb To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
  13. adverb (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

Synonyms

package plot portion share tract piece of land piece of ground parcel of land bundle packet

Etymology

From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. [Archaic] "A parcel of her woe." Chaucer.
  2. noun A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
  3. verb To divide and distribute by parts or portions; --often with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general." Shak.
  4. verb To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [R.]

Etymology [F. parcelle a small part, fr. (assumed) LL. particella, dim. of L. pars. See Part, n., and cf. Particle.]

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

Sanskrit

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