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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proud

/ˈpɹaʊ̯d/ adjective, proper noun

Forms prouder proudest Prouds prowd

  1. adjective Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. “We're proud of having won / to have won.”
  2. adjective That makes one feel proud (of something one did) “That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.”
  3. adjective Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. “I was too proud to apologise.”
  4. adjective (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
  5. adjective Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride. “It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.”
  6. adjective (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
  7. adjective Standing out or raised; swollen. “After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.”
  8. adjective (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
  9. proper noun A characteristical surname.

Synonyms

self-confident arrogant vain conceited gallant lofty majestic

Antonyms

ashamed humiliated embarrassed humble meek modest

Etymology

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”), see also Old English deal), probably from Old French prod, prut (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin prōde (“useful”), derived from Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. Compare Old Norse prýði (“ornament; gallantry, bravery”). See also pride.
Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud).

English surname, from the adjective proud.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: (a) Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
  2. adjective Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.

Etymology [OE. proud, prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, Dan. prud handsome. Cf. Pride.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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