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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tester

UK /ˈtɛstə/ · US /ˈtɛstəɹ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of testiere

Forms testers

  1. noun A canopy over a bed.
  2. noun Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or sounding board over a pulpit.
  3. noun A person who administers a test.
  4. noun A device used for testing.
  5. noun (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person′s back.
  6. noun A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
  7. noun A miniature pot of paint for testing and comparison purposes.
  8. noun (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.
  9. noun An old French silver coin.
  10. noun (UK, slang, dated) A sixpence.
  11. proper noun A surname from Old French.

Synonyms

Botany Bay dozen teston tizzy examiner quizzer

Etymology

From Middle English tester, from Old French testre, from Latin testura.

From Middle English tester, equivalent to test + -er.

For testern, teston, from French teston. See tester (“a covering”), and compare testone, testoon.

Inherited from Middle English tester; see testiere.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.]
  2. noun A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.
  3. noun An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; --often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.

Etymology [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. têtière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf. Testière.]

Etymology [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.]

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

Sanskrit

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