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

“blotteth” is a form of

blot

UK /blɒt/ · US /blɑt/ noun, verb

Forms blots blotting blotted

  1. noun A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
  2. noun (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
  3. noun (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
  4. noun (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
  5. verb (transitive) To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
  6. verb (intransitive) To soak up or absorb liquid. “This paper blots easily.”
  7. verb (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
  8. verb (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
  9. verb (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
  10. verb (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
  11. verb (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out. “to blot out a word or a sentence”
  12. verb (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
  13. noun A Norse (and modern Heathen) ceremonial offering.

Synonyms

asperse splatter sprinkle dirty pollute ruin ball up blight bumble botch bugger up bungle contaminate corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb foil fuck up smudge spot daub smear smirch slur stain fleck blob

Etymology

From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).

Learned borrowing from Old Norse blót.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.
  2. verb To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
  3. verb To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
  4. noun A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.

Etymology [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]

Etymology [Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]

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

Sanskrit

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