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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warm

UK /wɔːm/ · US /wɔɹm/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms warmer warmest warms warming warmed warme

  1. adjective Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable. “The tea is still warm.”
  2. adjective Friendly and with affection. “We have a warm friendship.”
  3. adjective Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
  4. adjective (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer. “Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.”
  5. adjective Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
  6. adjective (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness. “a warm piano sound”
  7. adjective (archaic) Ardent, zealous. “a warm debate, with strong words exchanged”
  8. adjective (dated, informal) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
  9. verb (transitive) To make or keep warm.
  10. verb (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up. “My socks are warming by the fire.”
  11. verb (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to] “He is warming to the idea.”
  12. verb (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
  13. verb (intransitive) To become ardent or animated. “The speaker warms as he proceeds.”
  14. verb (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
  15. verb (transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.
  16. verb (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
  17. noun (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. “Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?”

Synonyms

tepid mild balmy warm up affectionate fond lovesome tender strong quick ardent warmly

Antonyms

Arctic cold cool frozen

Etymology

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, from one of:
* Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), which is related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”).
* Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), in which case cognate with Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós) (making perhaps a distant doublet of thermos), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá).
In any case cognate within Germanic to West Frisian waarm, Saterland Frisian woorm, Dutch warm, German warm, Swedish varm, Icelandic varmur.

From Middle English warmen, wermen, wyrmen, from Old English wierman (“to make warm”) and wearmian (“to become warm”), from Proto-West Germanic *warmijan and *warmōn. Cognate with Dutch warmen, German wärmen, Swedish värma.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." Shak.
  2. adjective Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
  3. verb To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.
  4. verb To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

Etymology [AS. wearm; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. warm, Icel. varmr, Sw. & Dan. varm, Goth. warmjan to warm; probably akin to Lith. virti to cook, boil; or perhaps to Skr. gharma heat, OL. formus warm. 1. Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." Shak. Warm and still is the summer night. Longfellow. 2. Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing. 3. Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt. 4. Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! Milton. Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. Pope. They say he's warm man and does not care to be madAddison. I had been none of the warmest of partisans. Hawthor 5. Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't. Dryden. 6. Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. [Colloq.]

Etymology [AS. wearmian. See Warm, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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