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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samara

/ˈsæmərə/ noun, proper noun

Forms samaras samarae

  1. noun The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.
  2. proper noun An oblast of Russia.
  3. proper noun A city, the administrative center of Samara Oblast, Russia, the sixth-largest in the country by population.
  4. proper noun A tributary of the Volga in Russia, which meets the Volga at the city of the same name.
  5. proper noun A female given name.
  6. proper noun A tributary of the Dnieper in Ukraine.
  7. proper noun A village in Mykolaivka settlement hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

Synonyms

helicopter polynose whirligig whirlybird Kuybyshev key fruit key

Etymology

From Latin samara (“elm seed”), from a Gaulish term derived from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”).

Borrowed from Russian Сама́ра (Samára).

Borrowed from Ukrainian Сама́ра (Samára).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.

Etymology [L. samara, samera, the seed of the elm.]

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