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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

speck

/spɛk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms specks specking specked

  1. noun A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt. “a tiny speck of soot”
  2. noun A very small amount; a particle; a whit. “He has not a speck of money.”
  3. noun A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
  4. verb (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle. “paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture”
  5. noun Fat; lard; fat meat.
  6. noun (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
  7. noun The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
  8. noun The fat of the hippopotamus.
  9. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

ace atom thought atomy aught bissel continental bit crumb glimpse dab damn dash diddly glint dot spatter drop dusting fleck pinpoint molecule particle corpuscle mote touch hint tinge mite pinch

Etymology

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”), from the same ultimate source as Proto-Germanic *sprakô (“spark”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).

From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spik, from Proto-Germanic *spiką (“bacon”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.

* As a German surname, from the noun Speck (“bacon”).
* As an English surname, variant of Speake, and perhaps a variant of Peck with an initial -s.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
  2. noun A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
  3. noun A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
  4. verb To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.

Etymology [Cf. Icel. spik blubber, AS. spic, D. spek, G. speck.]

Etymology [OE. spekke, AS. specca; cf. LG. spaak.]

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

Sanskrit

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