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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slaver

UK /ˈslævə/ · US /ˈslævɚ/ verb, noun

Forms slavers slavering slavered

  1. verb (intransitive) To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
  2. verb (intransitive) To fawn.
  3. verb (intransitive, of saliva) To be drooled out of someone’s mouth.
  4. verb (transitive) To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
  5. verb To be besmeared with saliva.
  6. noun Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
  7. noun A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
  8. noun A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.
  9. noun (nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.

Synonyms

drool slobber slave dealer slave trader slaveholder slave owner drivel slabber dribble

Etymology

From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Doublet of slabber.

From slave (“enslave, traffic in slaves”) + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
  2. noun A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader.
  3. verb To suffer spittle, etc., to run from the mouth.
  4. verb To be besmeared with saliva. Shak.

Etymology [Cf. Icel. slafra. See Slabber.]

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

Sanskrit

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