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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bald

/bɔːld/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms balder baldest balds balding balded

  1. adjective Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers. “My uncle is bald.”
  2. adjective (specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head. “a bald man with a moustache”
  3. adjective Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
  4. adjective Of hair, nonexistent.
  5. adjective (figurative) Lacking any covering. “The bald cypress is a tree that loses its leaves in winter.”
  6. adjective (figurative) Of a tyre, whose surface is worn away.
  7. adjective (figurative) Of a statement or account, unembellished.
  8. adjective (figurative) Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
  9. noun (Appalachia) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
  10. noun (uncommon) A bald person.
  11. verb (intransitive) To become bald.
  12. verb (transitive) To make bald.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hairless barefaced bald-headed bald-pated denuded denudate

Antonyms

faxed haired

Etymology

From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”).
An alternate etymology relates it to Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą. Compare Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).

* As a Dutch and German surname, from the personal name Baldo, or related to Baldwin, where the first element is from the root of bold.
* As an English and Scottish surname, related to bald.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.
  2. adjective Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.

Etymology [OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p.p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. sq. root85. But cf. W. bali whiteness in a horse's forehead.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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