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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grey

/ɡɹeɪ/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of gray

Forms greyer greyest greys greying greyed

  1. adjective Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
  2. adjective (South Africa, slang) Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
  3. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname, alternative spelling of Gray.
  4. proper noun A rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Grey) in south-central Manitoba, Canada, named after Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey.
  5. proper noun A river in the West Coast Region, South Island, New Zealand; in full, Grey River.
  6. proper noun A territorial authority, Grey District, on the West Coast, New Zealand, the successor of Grey County.
  7. proper noun An English earldom.
  8. noun (UK, military, historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971.

Synonyms

coloured Zane Grey Lady Jane Grey Charles Grey Second Earl Grey gray grayness greyness greyish grayish grey-haired gray-haired grey-headed gray-headed grizzly hoar hoary white-haired

Etymology

From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the Anglian vowel development, whereas the variant gray stems from the West Saxon form grǣġ (through Middle English gray). Further derived from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective See Gray (the correct orthography).

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

Sanskrit

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

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