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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russet

/ˈɹʌsɪt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms russets russeting russetting russeted russetted

  1. noun A reddish-brown color.
  2. noun A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric.
  3. noun A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin.
  4. noun A variety of potato with rough, dark gray-brown skin.
  5. adjective Having a reddish-brown color.
  6. adjective (archaic) Gray or ash-colored.
  7. adjective Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
  8. adjective The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.
  9. adjective (botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.
  10. verb (ambitransitive, of apples, pears, etc.) To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.

Synonyms

russeting

Etymology

From Middle English russet, from Anglo-Norman russet, rossat, roset, and Middle French rosset, rousset (“reddish, reddish-brown; a rough wool cloth”), from Middle French rous, rus (“to rouse”) + -et (diminutive suffix); compare Late Latin rossetum, russetum, russeta (“rough wool cloth”), Latin russus (“red”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)), Occitan rosseta (“rough wool cloth”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.
  2. adjective Coarse; homespun; rustic. [R.] Shak.
  3. noun A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.
  4. noun Cloth or clothing of a russet color.

Etymology [F. rousset, dim. of roux red, L. russus (for rudtus, rudhtus), akin to E. red. See Red, and cf. Roussette.]

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