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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rand

/ɹænd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms rands randing randed the Rand

  1. noun The border of an area of land, now especially marshland. “at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh”
  2. noun (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
  3. noun (UK, dialect, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
  4. noun A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
  5. noun (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
  6. noun A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
  7. noun The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
  8. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
  9. noun (programming) A random number.
  10. proper noun (South Africa) The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Randall and Randolph.
  13. proper noun A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1078).
  14. proper noun A small town in Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
  17. proper noun A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

Synonyms

Ayn Rand Witwatersrand Reef

Etymology

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.
The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.

See rant.

Shortened from random.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A border; edge; margin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. noun A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak. Beau. & Fl.
  3. verb To rant; to storm. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. rand, rond; akin to D., Dan., Sw., & G. rand, Icel. rönd, and probably to E. rind.]

Etymology [See Rant.]

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