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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swash

UK /swɒʃ/ · US /swɑʃ/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms swashes swashing swashed swasher swashest

  1. noun (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
  2. noun A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  3. noun A wet splashing sound.
  4. noun A smooth stroke; a swish.
  5. noun A swishing noise.
  6. noun (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  7. noun A streak or patch.
  8. noun (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
  10. verb (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  11. verb (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
  12. verb (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
  13. verb (ambitransitive) To swipe.
  14. verb (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
  15. verb To streak, to color in a swash.
  16. adjective bold; dramatic.
  17. adjective (typography) Having pronounced swashes.

Synonyms

spatter splatter plash splash splosh boast tout shoot a line brag gas blow bluster vaunt gasconade swagger

Etymology

Scandinavian. Compare Swedish dialect svasska, Norwegian svakka, English dialect swack (“a blow”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
  2. adjective Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.
  3. verb To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
  4. verb To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Etymology [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.]

Etymology [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. svasska to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw. svassa to bully, to rodomontade.]

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