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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calm

UK /kɑːm/ · US /kɑm/ adjective, noun, verb

Also a form of qualm

Forms calmer calmest calms calming calmed calme

  1. adjective (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
  2. adjective (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
  3. adjective (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
  4. adjective (of weather) Without wind or storm.
  5. adjective (slang, MLE) Good; alright; cool; OK.
  6. noun (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
  7. noun (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
  8. noun (meteorology) The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
  9. verb (transitive) To make calm.
  10. verb (intransitive) To become calm.

Synonyms

steady collected composed cool-headed equable equanimous equanimitable even-keeled even-minded even-tempered imperturbable laid-back level-headed mellow pacate pacific peaceable peaceful phlegmatic placid composure calmness equanimity calm air calm down quiet tranquilize tranquillize tranquillise quieten

Antonyms

stressed nervous anxious disturbed windy stormy angry peevish agitate excite

Etymology

From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”).
Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quiet, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Freodom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or abeence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stilness; quiet; serenity.
  2. verb To make calm; to render still or quet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.
  3. verb To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.
  4. adjective Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. "Calm was the day." Spenser.

Etymology [OE. calme, F. calme, fr. It. or Sp. calma (cf. Pg. calma heat), prob. fr. LL. cauma heat, fr. Gr. Caustic]

Etymology [Cf. F. calmer. See Calm, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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