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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revel

/ˈɹɛv.əl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms revels reveling revelling reveled revelled

  1. noun An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
  2. noun A kind of dance.
  3. noun A wake for the dead.
  4. verb To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
  5. verb To take delight (in something).
  6. verb (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

shindig carouse celebrate revelry delight enjoy racket make whoopie make merry make happy whoop it up jollify wassail

Etymology

From Middle English revelen, from Old French revel, from reveler (“to be disorderly, to make merry”), from Latin rebello (“to rebel”). Doublet of rebel.

From Latin revellere, from re- + vellere (“to pluck, pull”).

* As an English surname, variant of Revell.
* As a French surname, from Old French reveau (“rebel”).
* Also as a French surname, from several places in France, such as Revel, Haute-Garonne, named after a nearby Mont Revel, from Latin rebellis (“he who revolts, rebels”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Reveal. [R.]
  2. noun A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
  3. verb To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. Shak.
  4. verb To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. "Where joy most revels." Shak.

Etymology [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See Revel, v. i.]

Etymology [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See Rebel.]

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

Sanskrit

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