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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bandy

/ˈbændi/ verb, adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms bandies bandying bandied bandier bandiest Bandys bandie

  1. verb (transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. “to bandy words (with somebody)”
  2. verb (transitive) To use or pass about casually. “to have one's name bandied about (or around)”
  3. verb (transitive) To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
  4. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To fight (with or against someone).
  5. adjective Bow-legged, having knees bending outward.
  6. noun (sports, uncountable) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
  7. noun (sports, countable) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
  8. noun A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

kick around bandy-legged bowed bowleg bowlegged

Etymology

From French bander (“to bandy at tennis”), with -y, -ie added due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese bandear and/or Old Occitan bandir (“to throw”), from the same root as English band. Compare also with banter.

Borrowed from Scots bandy.

Probably from the verb bandy in the sense "toss/bat back and forth", or possibly from the Welsh word bando, most likely derived from the Proto-Germanic *bandją (“a curved stick”).

Borrowed from Telugu బండి (baṇḍi).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
  2. noun A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.
  3. noun The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
  4. verb To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.

Etymology [Telugu bandi.]

Etymology [Cf. F. bandé, p.p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See Band, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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