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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heal

/ˈhiːl/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms heals healing healed

  1. verb (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. “This bandage will help to heal your cut.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To become better or healthy again. “Bandages allow cuts to heal.”
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. “to heal dissensions”
  4. noun (roleplaying games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
  5. noun (roleplaying games, video games, in the plural) Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points. “Give me heals! I need healing!”
  6. noun (obsolete, uncountable) health
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

get better recover mend cure make whole bring around

Etymology

From Middle English helen, from Old English hǣlan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailijan, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). Derived from the adjective at hand in whole.
Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Saterland Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”), and further Russian цели́ть (celítʹ, “to heal”), Polish calić (“to save”), Czech celit (“to heal”), Serbo-Croatian céliti (“to heal”).

See hele.

English surname, variant of Hale.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
  2. verb To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
  3. verb To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; --said of a disease or a wound.
  4. verb To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; --sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.

Etymology [See Hele.]

Etymology [OE. helen, hælen, AS. hælan, fr. hal hale, sound, whole; akin to OS. helian, D. heelen, G. heilen, Goth. hailjan. See Whole.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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