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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curd

/kɜː(ɹ)d/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms curds curding curded

  1. noun The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
  2. noun (India) Dahi.
  3. noun A solid piece of coagulated scrambled egg.
  4. noun The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
  5. verb (intransitive) To form curd; to curdle.
  6. verb (transitive) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distingushed from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.
  2. noun The coagulated part of any liquid.
  3. verb To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
  4. verb To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey Shak.

Etymology [Of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. gruth, Ir, gruth, cruth, curd, cruthaim I milk.]

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

Sanskrit

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