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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basil

UK /ˈbæz.əl/ · US /ˈbeɪ.zəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms basils basiling basilling basiled basilled

  1. noun A plant (Ocimum basilicum).
  2. noun The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
  3. noun Any other species in the genus Ocimum.
  4. noun The angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away.
  5. verb (transitive) To grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle.
  6. noun The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
  7. noun (obsolete) A type of cannon.
  8. noun (now historical, archaic) A fetter fastened round the ankle of a prisoner.
  9. proper noun A male given name from Ancient Greek, in quiet but steady use in the UK.

Synonyms

sweet basil St. Joseph's wort common basil American dittany great basil bevel sharpen basan bazil St. Basil Basil of Caesarea Basil the Great St. Basil the Great

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English basile, from Middle French basile, from Old French basile, from Medieval Latin basilicum, from Ancient Greek βασιλικόν (basilikón, “royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”). Doublet of basilic, basilicon, and basilicum; further related to basileus, basilean, and basileiolatry.

Variant of bezel.

Corrupted from English basan, from French basane, from Late Latin basanium, from Arabic بِطانَة (biṭāna, “lining”).

From Old French basile (“basilisk”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.
  2. verb To grind or form the edge of to an angle. Moxon.
  3. noun The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). Basil thyme, a name given to the fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta.
  4. noun The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

Etymology [Cf. F. basile and E. Bezel.]

Etymology [F. basilic, fr. L. badilicus royal, Gr. , fr. king.]

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

Sanskrit

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