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

colt

/kəʊlt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms colts colting colted

  1. noun A young male horse.
  2. noun A young crane (bird).
  3. noun (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
  4. noun (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
  5. noun (slang, obsolete) A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
  6. noun (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
  7. noun (obsolete, slang) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
  8. noun (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
  9. verb (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
  10. verb (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
  11. verb (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  12. verb (obsolete, slang, transitive) To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
  13. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
  14. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  15. proper noun A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
  17. noun A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

Synonyms

harlotize

Etymology

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.

From colt, as a nickname or occupational name for someone who looked after horses and asses. The given name may also be short for Colton. The revolver is named after American inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; --sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female.
  2. noun A young, foolish fellow. Shak.
  3. verb To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.]
  4. verb To horse; to get with young. Shak.

Etymology [OE. colt a young horse, ass, or camel, AS. colt; cf. dial. Sw. kullt a boy, lad.]

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

Sanskrit

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