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

cake

/keɪk/ noun, verb

Forms cakes caking caked

  1. noun A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  2. noun A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. “an oatmeal cake”
  3. noun A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. “buckwheat cakes”
  4. noun A block of any various dense materials. “a cake of soap”
  5. noun (slang) Synonym of money.
  6. noun (slang) Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full. “Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.”
  7. noun (pyrotechnics) A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
  8. noun (UK, figurative) Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts.
  9. verb (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. “His shoes are caked with mud.”
  10. verb (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
  11. verb (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Synonyms

gateau block money buttocks pie pastry crust encrust bar patty coat

Etymology

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
  2. noun A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
  3. verb To form into a cake, or mass.
  4. verb To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.

Etymology [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchem, OHG. chuocho.]

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

Sanskrit

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