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

trey

/tɹeɪ/ noun, proper noun

Forms treys

  1. noun (card games, occasionally dice games) A playing card or die with the rank of three.
  2. noun (card games, dice games, dominoes) A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
  3. noun (US, Canada, basketball, informal, obsolete) A three-pointer.
  4. noun (Australia, informal) A three penny coin; a thrippence.
  5. noun (informal) The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral III.
  6. noun The third branch of a deer's antler.
  7. proper noun A nickname for someone who is the third person in the family sharing his father's name.
  8. proper noun A male given name from English of modern usage, derived from the nickname.

Synonyms

three 3 III trio threesome tierce leash troika triad trine trinity ternary ternion triplet tercet terzetto deuce-ace

Etymology

From Middle English trey, from Anglo-Norman trei or treis, from Old French treis (“three”). Doublet of three and tres.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.

Etymology [OF. treis three, F. trois, L. tres. See Three, and cf. Tray-trip.]

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

Sanskrit

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