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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earth

UK /ɜːθ/ · US /ɝθ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms earths earthing earthed airth erd yearth

  1. noun (uncountable) Soil. “This is good earth for growing potatoes.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Any general rock-based material. “She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.”
  3. noun The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea). “Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.”
  4. noun (UK) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
  5. noun The lair or den (as a hole in the ground, or a system of tunnels) of an animal, such as a badger.
  6. noun A region of the planet; a land or country.
  7. noun Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
  8. noun The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
  9. verb (UK, transitive) To connect electrically to the earth. “That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.”
  10. verb (transitive) To bury.
  11. verb (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
  12. verb (intransitive) To burrow.
  13. proper noun The third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.
  14. proper noun The personification of the Earth or earth, (chiefly) as a fertile woman or (religion) goddess.

Synonyms

burrow warren ground the Blue Planet the globe God's green earth Sol III Terra the world Middle Earth Midgard Mother Earth for female forms world globe land dry land solid ground terra firma worldly concern earthly concern

Etymology

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”).
Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“earth”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aard, aarde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Limburgish eerd (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”), Norn yurn (“the earth”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa, “earth”); also Latin ōra (“border, edge, rim”), Breton erv (“ridge between furrows”), Welsh erw (“acre”), Ancient Greek ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground”), Lithuanian erdvė (“expanse, space”), Albanian varr, vorr (“grave”), Tocharian B āre (“dust, loose earth”), Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvarā, “fertile soil, field yielding crops”), Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /⁠erḫaš⁠/, “border, boundary, line”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-Germanic *erþō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”). More at earth.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.
  2. noun The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.
  3. verb To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den. "The fox is earthed." Dryden.
  4. verb To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; --sometimes with up. The miser earths his treasure, and the thief, Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. Young.

Etymology [AS. eor; akin to OS. ertha, OFries. irthe, D. aarde, OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. jör, Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. airpa, OHG. ero, Gr. ear to plow.]

Etymology [From Ear to plow.]

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

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