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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blossom

UK /ˈblɒs.əm/ · US /ˈblɑ.səm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms blossoms blossoming blossomed blasom

  1. noun A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers. “The blossom has come early this year.”
  2. noun The state or season of producing such flowers. “The orchard is in blossom.”
  3. noun (figurative) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
  4. noun The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
  5. verb (intransitive) To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
  6. verb (intransitive) To begin to thrive or flourish.
  7. proper noun A hamlet in New York.
  8. proper noun A city in Texas.
  9. proper noun (rare) A female given name.

Synonyms

bloom come into bloom come into blossom flower blow flourish grow prosper thrive prime peak heyday efflorescence flush blossom out blossom forth unfold

Etymology

From Middle English blosme, from Old English blostm, blostma, from Proto-Germanic *blōstmô (compare West Frisian blossem, Dutch bloesem; related to *blōstaz [compare German Blust]), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s- (“bloom, flower”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom, to thrive”). Cognate with Albanian bleron (“to blossom, to thrive”), Latin flōs (“flower”), Flōra (“goddess of plants”). See more at blow (etymology 4).

From blossom.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
  2. noun A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
  3. verb To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
  4. verb To flourish and prosper.

Etymology [OE. blosme, blostme, AS. bl, bl, blossom; akin to D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Bloom a blossom.]

Etymology [AS. bl. See Blossom, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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