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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relish

/ˈɹɛlɪʃ/ noun, verb

Forms relishes relishing relished relishest relishedst relisheth rellish

  1. noun (uncountable) Flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.
  2. noun (countable) Followed by for: one's liking or taste for something; a fondness.
  3. noun (countable) A small amount; a tinge, a trace.
  4. noun (uncountable) Ability to taste or (figurative) enjoy.
  5. noun (uncountable) Particular quality; (countable) an instance of this; a characteristic or quality.
  6. noun (uncountable) Enjoyment of flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.
  7. noun (figurative, uncountable) Enjoyment of something pleasant; (countable) an instance of this.
  8. noun (uncountable) Appetizing or pleasant flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.
  9. verb To give (something) (a pleasant) flavour or taste; to make appetizing.
  10. verb (also reflexive, figurative, sometimes in the negative) To take delight or pleasure in (someone or oneself, or something). “He relishes their time together.”
  11. verb To eat or taste (drink, food, etc.).
  12. verb To provide (someone, or their appetite, mouth, stomach, etc.) with something appetizing or tasty.
  13. verb (figurative) To appreciate or understand (something).
  14. verb (figurative) To experience (something); also (rare), to feel (something).
  15. verb (figurative) To have a particular opinion about (someone or something); to receive, to regard.
  16. verb (figurative) To have a tinge or trace of (something).
  17. noun (architecture, obsolete) A projecting component.
  18. noun (carpentry, by extension) In a wooden frame: the projection or shoulder around, or at the side of, a tenon (“projecting member made to insert into a mortise”), used to strengthen a mortise-and-tenon joint.
  19. verb (transitive, carpentry) To add one or more relishes (noun etymology 2, noun sense 2) to (a tenon, piece of wood, etc.).
  20. noun (music, historical) A type of ornamentation comprising one or more trills.

Synonyms

ace atom thought atomy aught bissel continental bit crumb glimpse dab damn dash diddly glint dot spatter drop dusting fleck gusto zest zestfulness flavor flavour sapidity savor savour smack nip

Antonyms

abundance battalion arseload assload bellyload boatload brimful busload bucketful bucketload butt-ton bumload

Etymology

The noun is a variant of release (“(obsolete) odour, scent”), from Middle English reles, relese (“odour, scent; taste; efficacy, power”), probably from Anglo-Norman reles, relais, or Old French reles, relais (“that which is left behind, remainder, residue”), from relaisser, relaschier (“to liberate, release; to relax”) (modern French relâcher), from Latin relaxāre, the present active infinitive of relaxō (“to stretch out or widen again, loosen, slacken; (figurative) to ease, relax”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + laxō (“to release, undo; to relax”) (from laxus (“spacious, wide; loose, slack”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg- (“to slacken; to tire out”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Doublet of release.
The verb is derived from the noun.

The noun is derived from Late Middle English relese (“projection of a wall”), probably from Middle French relais or Old French relais (“projection of masonry at the base of a wall”), a specific use of reles, relais (“that which is left behind, remainder, residue”): see further at etymology 1. Doublet of release.
The verb is derived from the noun.

The noun is probably derived partly:
* from release (“(obsolete) odour, scent”), from Middle English reles, relese (“odour, scent; taste; efficacy, power”); and
* from relish (“one’s liking or taste for something”).
See further at etymology 1. The verb is probably derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.
  2. verb To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.
  3. verb To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.
  4. noun A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.

Etymology [Of. relechier to lick or taste anew; pref. re- re- + lechier to lick, F. l. See Lecher, Lick.]

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

Sanskrit

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