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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bake

/beɪk/ verb, noun

Forms bakes baking baked book baken

  1. verb (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). “I baked a delicious cherry pie.”
  2. verb (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven. “The cake baked at 350°F.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To regularly prepare baked goods. “In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.”
  4. verb (intransitive, slang, figurative) To smoke marijuana.
  5. verb (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
  6. verb (intransitive) To be warmed for drying and hardening. “The clay baked in the sun.”
  7. verb (transitive) To dry by heat. “They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.”
  8. verb (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot. “It is baking in the greenhouse.”
  9. noun The act of cooking food by baking.
  10. noun (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  11. noun Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry. “bake pan”
  12. noun (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. “an oyster bake on the shore”
  13. noun (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).

Synonyms

fire broil

Etymology

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).
Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
  2. verb To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
  3. verb To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak.
  4. verb To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

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

Sanskrit

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