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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carpenter

UK /ˈkɑː.pən.tə/ · US /ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms carpenters carpentering carpentered

  1. noun A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  2. noun (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
  3. noun A two-wheeled carriage.
  4. noun (zoology) A carpenter bee.
  5. noun (Canada, UK, regional) A woodlouse.
  6. verb (transitive, intransitive) To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
  7. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.
  8. proper noun Synonym of Long Island, Alabama.
  9. proper noun A ghost town in Mesa County, Colorado.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
  11. proper noun A township in Jasper County, Indiana.
  12. proper noun A minor city in Mitchell County, Iowa.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
  14. proper noun A township in Itasca County, Minnesota.

Synonyms

joiner chippy timberwright treewright woodworker woodwright carpent Long Island Alabama

Etymology

From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car.
Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).

From carpenter, from Latin carpentarius.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

Etymology [OF. carpentier, F. charpentier, LL. carpentarius, fr. L. carpentum wagon, carriage.]

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

Sanskrit

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