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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shaver

UK /ˈʃeɪvə/ · US /ˈʃeɪvɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms shavers

  1. noun One who shaves.
  2. noun A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
  3. noun A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
  4. noun (slang, obsolete) An extortionate bargainer; a sharper.
  5. noun One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
  6. noun (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

child kid youngster minor nipper small fry tiddler tike tyke fry nestling electric shaver electric razor

Etymology

From Middle English schaver; equivalent to shave + -er.
In its meaning of a boy, lad, recorded since 1592, the word shaver has also been postulated to derive from Romani chavo (“young man”), which also gives us the modern slang chav, ultimately derived from Sanskrit छा (chā, “young animal”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
  2. noun One who is close in bargains; a sharper. Swift.

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

Sanskrit

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