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

“dangers” is a form of

danger

UK /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/ · US /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ noun, verb

Forms dangers dangering dangered

  1. noun Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury. “There's plenty of danger in the desert.”
  2. noun An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
  3. noun (obsolete) Mischief.
  4. noun (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger"). “The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.”
  5. noun (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
  6. noun (obsolete) Liability.
  7. noun (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
  8. noun (UK, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
  9. verb To claim liability.
  10. verb To imperil; to endanger.
  11. verb To run the risk.

Synonyms

peril adventure distress harm's way jeopardy extremity threat menace hazard risk

Antonyms

safety secureness security

Etymology

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.]
  2. noun Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below.
  3. verb To endanger. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same meaning), F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame.]

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

Sanskrit

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