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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shroud

/ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ noun, verb

Forms shrouds shrouding shrouded

  1. noun That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  2. noun Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  3. noun That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  4. noun A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  5. noun (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
  6. noun One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  7. noun (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
  8. verb To cover with a shroud.
  9. verb To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. “The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.”
  10. verb To take shelter or harbour.
  11. noun The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  12. verb (transitive, UK, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).

Synonyms

sindon cloak cover mantle veil sheet tack mainsheet weather sheet pall cerement winding-sheet winding-clothes enshroud hide

Etymology

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud, dress, attire”). Compare Proto-Germanic *skrūdijaną (“to shroud”).
Cognate with Old Norse skrúð, Swedish skrud (“shroud”), Danish and Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).

Variant of shred.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  2. noun Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. "A dead man in his shroud." Shak.
  3. verb To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
  4. verb To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

Etymology [OE. shroud, shrud, schrud, AS. scr a garment, clothing; akin to Icel. skru the shrouds of a ship, furniture of a church, a kind of stuff, Sw. skrud dress, attire, and E. shred. See Shred, and cf. Shrood.]

Etymology [Cf. AS. scr. See Shroud, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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