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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van

/væn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms vans vanning vanned Van.

  1. noun A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
  2. noun (UK) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
  3. noun (dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
  4. noun (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
  5. verb (transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
  6. verb (Internet slang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
  7. noun (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
  8. verb (mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
  9. noun A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
  10. noun A wing with which the air is beaten.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Arkansas County, Arkansas.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon.
  14. proper noun A city in Van Zandt County, Texas.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia.
  16. proper noun A census-designated place in Boone County, West Virginia.
  17. proper noun A community and suburb of Caerphilly in Caerphilly borough (OS grid ref ST1686).
  18. proper noun A hamlet in Llanidloes Without community, Powys (OS grid ref SN9587).
  19. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa.
  20. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Vance, Ivan, and Evan.

Synonyms

minivan minibus YVR avant-garde vanguard new wave caravan

Etymology

Short for caravan.

From Cornish.

From Latin vannus (“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare French van and English fan, winnow. Doublet of fan.

Shortening of vanguard.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
  2. noun A shovel used in cleansing ore.
  3. verb To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
  4. noun A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods. [Eng.]

Etymology [Abbrev. fr. vanguard.]

Etymology [Cornish.]

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

Sanskrit

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