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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“adders” is a form of

adder

/ˈædɚ/ noun

Forms adders edder

  1. noun (obsolete) Any snake.
  2. noun (chiefly UK) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
  3. noun A common European adder (Vipera berus).
  4. noun A puff adder, of Africa (genus Bitis).
  5. noun A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
  6. noun A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
  7. noun Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
  8. noun A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
  9. noun Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  10. noun An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
  11. noun Something which adds or increases. “They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.”
  12. noun (informal) A person who has attention deficit disorder.

Synonyms

common viper Vipera berus

Etymology

From Middle English nadder, addere, rebracketing of “a naddere” as “an addere”, from Old English nǣdre (“snake”), from Proto-West Germanic *nadrā, from Proto-Germanic *nadrǭ, from pre-Germanic *néh₁treh₂, variant of Proto-Indo-European *n̥h₁trih₂, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”).
See also West Frisian njirre, Dutch adder, German Natter, Otter; also Welsh neidr, Latin natrīx (“watersnake”), Dutch naaien.

From ADD + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
  2. noun A serpent. [Obs.] "The eddre seide to the woman." Wyclif. Gen.
  3. noun (a) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

Etymology [See Add.]

Etymology [OE. addere, naddere, eddre, AS. nædre, adder, snake; akin to OS. nadra, OHG. natra, natara, Ger. natter, Goth. nadrs, Icel. nathr, masc., nathra, fem.: cf. W. neidr, Gorn. naddyr, Ir. nathair, L. natrix, water snake. An adder is for a nadder.]

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

Sanskrit

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