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

“cellars” is a form of

cellar

UK /ˈsɛlə/ · US /ˈsɛləɹ/ noun, verb

Forms cellars cellaring cellared seller

  1. noun An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter. “The farmhouse has several additions, added over many decades; it has three cellars, and one of them is older than the other two.”
  2. noun A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar. “The insurance company valued his cellar at $27,000, largely on the strength of his bottles of 1972 Château Hypothetica.”
  3. noun (slang) Last place in a league or competition; some rank near last place. “The Tigers have been in the cellar all year long, and I'm tired of it.”
  4. noun (UK, Northeastern US) A basement. “Most of my tools and hardware are in the garage, but I keep some tools in the cellar, too, mainly for convenience.”
  5. verb (transitive) To store (something, especially food or wine) in a cellar.
  6. noun salt cellar

Synonyms

basement root cellar wine cellar

Etymology

From Middle English celer, seler, from Anglo-Norman celer, Old French celier (modern cellier), from Late Latin cellārium, from Latin cella. Doublet of cellarium.

From 15th century English saler, from French salière, from Latin salarius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sal (“salt”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

Etymology [OE. celer, OF. celier, F. celier, fr. L. cellarium a receptacle for food, pantry, fr. cella storeroom. See Cell.]

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

Sanskrit

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