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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beggar

UK /ˈbɛɡə/ · US /ˈbɛɡɚ/ noun, verb

Forms beggars beggaring beggared begger

  1. noun A person who begs.
  2. noun A person suffering from extreme poverty.
  3. noun (colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel. “What does that silly beggar think he's doing?”
  4. noun (UK) A minced oath for bugger.
  5. noun (card games) the last placer in Tycoon
  6. verb (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
  7. verb (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.

Synonyms

mendicant panhandler schnorrer spanger truant palliard pauper vagabond bankrupt indigent insolvent have not lack-all Lazarus penny-father poor hellraiser rascal scapegrace agitator pauperize pauperise

Antonyms

tycoon

Etymology

From Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar (“beggar”), from Middle English beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg + -ar.
Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard); the order is said to be named after the priest Lambert le Bègue of Liège (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
  2. noun One who makes it his business to ask alms.
  3. verb To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
  4. verb To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

Etymology [OE. beggere, fr. beg.]

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

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