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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breakfast

UK /ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst/ · US /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/ noun, verb

Forms breakfasts breakfasting breakfasted

  1. noun The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. “You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.”
  2. noun (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc. “We serve breakfast all day.”
  3. noun The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
  4. noun (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
  5. verb (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
  6. verb (transitive) To serve breakfast to.

Synonyms

break one's fast

Etymology

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
  2. noun A meal after fasting, or food in general.
  3. verb To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. Prior.
  4. verb To furnish with breakfast. Milton.

Etymology [Break + fast.]

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

Sanskrit

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