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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sallow

UK /ˈsæləʊ/ · US /ˈsæloʊ/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms sallower sallowest sallows sallowing sallowed salley

  1. adjective (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour.
  2. adjective (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
  3. adjective (of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
  4. adjective (of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
  5. adjective Foul; murky; sickly.
  6. verb (intransitive) To become sallow.
  7. verb (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
  8. noun A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
  9. noun A willow twig or branch.

Synonyms

goat willow sickly

Etymology

From Middle English salowe, from Old English salu, from Proto-West Germanic *salu, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selH-.
See also Dutch zaluw, dialectal German sal; also Irish salach (“dirty”), Welsh halog, Latin salīva, Russian соло́вый (solóvyj, “cream-colored”), and - through Frankish - French sale.

From Middle English salow, salwe, from Old English sealh, from Proto-West Germanic *salh, from Proto-Germanic *salhaz, masculine variant of *salhō, *salhijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂lk-, *sh₂lik-.
See also Low German Sal, Saal; Swedish sälg; also Welsh helyg, Latin salix (and also a doublet of the thence derived English borrowing salix) probably originally a borrowing from some other language.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson.
  2. noun A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.
  3. adjective Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.
  4. verb To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic]

Etymology [OE. salwe, AS. sealth; akin to OHG. salaha, G. salwiede, Icel. selja L. salix, Ir. sail, saileach, Gael. seileach, W. helyg, Gr. 1. The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic]

Etymology [AS. salu; akin to D. zaluw, OHG. salo, Icel. sölr yellow.]

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