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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sard

/sɑː(ɹ)d/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sards sarding sarded

  1. noun (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
  2. noun Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
  3. verb (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
  4. proper noun Synonym of Sardinian (“a Romance language”).

Synonyms

fuck jape swive Formal terms bed coit coitize dight enjoy feague go in unto go to bed with have know lie by lie with love mount occupy penetrate sardine sardius

Etymology

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorþan (“to violate, rape”), from Proto-Germanic *serþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.

Etymology [L. sarda, Gr. sarde. Cf. Sardius.]

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