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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blower

UK /ˈbləʊ.ə/ · US /ˈbloʊ.ɚ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of blow

Forms blowers

  1. noun A person who blows.
  2. noun (mining) A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.
  3. noun Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
  4. noun A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
  5. noun (slang, chiefly UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, usually preceded by the) Telephone. “Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!”
  6. noun (slang, UK, Ireland, historical) A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
  7. noun (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
  8. noun (nautical) The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
  9. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.

Synonyms

feeder electric fan cetacean cetacean mammal

Etymology

From Middle English blowere, blower, from Old English blāwere; equivalent to blow + -er.

From blower, an occupational surname for someone who operated a bellows, or alternatively for someone who blew a horn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, blows.
  2. noun A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

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

Sanskrit

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