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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sprig

/spɹɪɡ/ noun, verb

Forms sprigs sprigging sprigged

  1. noun A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. “a sprig of laurel or of parsley”
  2. noun An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
  3. noun One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.
  4. noun (humorous, sometimes mildly derogatory) A youth; a lad.
  5. noun A brad, or nail without a head.
  6. noun A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
  7. noun A house sparrow.
  8. verb (transitive) To decorate with sprigs, or with representations of sprigs, as in embroidery or pottery.
  9. verb (transitive) To nail the sole onto a shoe.

Synonyms

branchlet twig

Etymology

From Middle English sprig, sprigge, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Low German sprik, spricke (“a dry, easily broken twig that has fallen from a tree; sprig”). Compare also dialectal English sprag (“sprig, twig”), English spray (“branch”), Old English spræc (“a shoot”), German Low German Spricke, Sprick (“dry branch, twig”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
  2. noun A youth; a lad; --used humorously or in slight disparagement.
  3. verb To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.

Etymology [AS. sprec; akin to Icel. sprek a stick. Cf. Spray a branch.]

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

Sanskrit

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