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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constable

UK /ˈkʌn.stə.bəl/ · US /ˈkɑn.stə.bəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms constables constabling constabled

  1. noun One holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
  2. noun (UK, law) A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
  3. noun (historical) An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
  4. noun The warden of a castle.
  5. noun (US) An elected or appointed public officer, usually at municipal level, responsible for maintaining order or serving writs and court orders.
  6. noun (Channel Islands) An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)
  7. noun A large butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus, family Nymphalidae, of Asia.
  8. verb (intransitive, dated) To act as a constable or policeman.
  9. proper noun An English surname originating as an occupation from Old French conestable (“constable”).
  10. proper noun A town in Franklin County, New York; named for landowner William Constable.

Synonyms

police officer John Constable police constable

Etymology

From Middle English constable, cunstable, constabil, connestable, cunestable, from Old French conestable, from Latin comes stabulī (“officer of the stables”). For the sense-development; compare marshal. Doublet of connétable.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the Middle Ages.
  2. noun An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to exeute the warrants of judicial offiers.

Etymology [OE. conestable, constable, a constable (in sense 1), OF. conestable, F. conn, LL. conestabulus, constabularius, comes stabuli, orig., count of the stable, master of the horse, equerry; comes ount (L. ompanion) + L. stabulum stable. See Count a nobleman, and Stable.]

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

Sanskrit

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