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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rosewood

/ˈɹoʊzˌwʊd/ noun, proper noun

Forms rosewoods

  1. noun The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.
  2. noun Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.
  3. noun The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.
  4. noun Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp., for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus).
  5. proper noun A surname.
  6. proper noun A locality in the Greater Hume council area and the Snowy Valleys council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  7. proper noun A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  8. proper noun A town and locality in Queensland, Australia.
  9. proper noun An affluent residential neighborhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, United States.
  12. proper noun A locality in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Synonyms

Brazilian rosewood Rio rosewood Bahia rosewood pianowood rosewood tree

Etymology

A compound of rose + wood, originally so named because of the rose-scented aromatic oil derived from it; applied in later senses on account of these woods’ predominantly reddish-brown colour.

From rosewood.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus.

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