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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shiver

UK /ˈʃɪvə/ · US /ˈʃɪvɚ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms shivers shivering shivered

  1. verb To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. “They stood outside for hours, shivering in the frosty air.”
  2. verb (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
  3. noun The act of shivering. “A shiver went up my spine.”
  4. noun (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
  5. noun A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
  6. noun (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
  7. noun (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
  8. noun (geology) A variety of blue slate.
  9. noun (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
  10. noun A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
  11. noun (obsolete, UK, dialect) A spindle.
  12. verb (transitive) To break into splinters or fragments.
  13. verb (intransitive) To be broken into splinters or fragments.
  14. noun (collective) A group of sharks.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

tremble shake frisson chill quiver shudder thrill tingle throb

Etymology

Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel, or a frequentive of sheaf.

From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).

Origin uncertain

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; --generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton.
  2. noun A thin slice; a shive. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "A shiver of their own loaf." Fuller.
  3. verb To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
  4. verb To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.

Etymology [OE. schivere, fr. shive; cf. G. schifer a splinter, slate, OHG. scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. skifer a slate. See Shive, and cf. Skever.]

Etymology [OE. schiveren, scheveren; cf. OD. scheveren. See Shiver a fragment.]

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

Sanskrit

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