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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pound

/ˈpaʊ̯nd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pounds pounding pounded poun pown

  1. noun A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
  2. noun Various non-English units of measure.
  3. noun A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
  4. noun A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
  5. noun The base unit of sterling, the currency used in the United Kingdom and some of its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
  6. noun Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
  7. verb (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
  8. noun A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
  9. noun (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
  10. noun (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
  11. noun A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
  12. noun A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
  13. noun (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
  14. verb To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
  15. verb (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
  16. verb (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
  17. verb (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly. “You really pounded that beer!”
  18. verb (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location. “The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night.”
  19. verb (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb. “As I tiptoed past the sleeping dog, my heart was pounding but I remained silent.”
  20. verb (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour. “I was pounding her all night!”

Synonyms

lb lb t pound sterling mul:GBP mul:£ quid nicker sov punt octothorpe pound sign hash hash sign hashtag number sign sharp animal shelter impound car pound impound lot British pound British pound sterling Syrian pound Sudanese pound Lebanese pound Irish pound Irish punt Egyptian pound Cypriot pound lbf.

Etymology

From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).
Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt.

From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English *pund (“an enclosure”). Related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).

From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūn- (“broken pieces, rubble”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), West Frisian pún (“debris, rubble”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”).

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound meaning "measure of weight" and "enclosure."
* As a German surname, variant of Pfund, or as a north/Low German surname, from the variants of it, Pund, Pundt, all meaning "pound," thus related to the above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
  2. verb To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
  3. verb To strike heavy blows; to beat.
  4. verb To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.

Etymology [OE. pounen, AS. punian to bruise. Cf. Pun a play on words.]

Etymology [AS. pund an inclosure: cf. forpyndan to turn away, or to repress, also Icel. pynda to extort, torment, Ir. pont, pond, pound. Cf. Pinder, Pinfold, Pin to inclose, Pond.]

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

Sanskrit

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