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

spittle

/ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms spittles spittling spittled

  1. noun Spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration.
  2. noun Something frothy and white that resembles spit.
  3. noun Spit-up or drool of an infant.
  4. noun A small sort of spade.
  5. verb To dig or stir with a small spade.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

saliva spit

Etymology

Alteration of dialectal spattle (by association with spit (noun)), from Old English spātl, which is related to spǣtan (whence spit (verb)).

Representing a frequentative form of spit (“a spade's depth”), equivalent to spit + -le.

* From Middle English spitel (“lodging house”), an occupational surname for someone who was employed at a lodging house.
* Americanized spelling of German Spittel, a metonymic occupational surname for someone who worked in an infirmary, from Middle High German spital (“hospital”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Spital. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  2. verb To dig or stir with a small spade. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. noun A small sort of spade. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. noun The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit. Spittle insect. (Zoöl.) See Cuckoo spit (b), under Cuckoo.

Etymology [See Spit to spade.]

Etymology [From Spit to eject from the mouth: cf. Spattle, and AS. spatl.]

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

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