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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dyer

UK /ˈdaɪə/ · US /ˈdaɪɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms dyers

  1. noun One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.
  2. proper noun An English surname originating as an occupation for a dyer of cloth.
  3. proper noun A minor city in Crawford County, Arkansas; named for S. M. Dyer, who bought the town's land.
  4. proper noun A town in St. John Township, Lake County, Indiana, a suburb of Chicago; named for early settler Martha Dyer Hart.
  5. proper noun A census-designated place in Esmeralda County, Nevada; named for nearby Dyer's Ranch.
  6. proper noun A city in Gibson County, Tennessee.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia; named for postmaster G. M. Dyer.
  8. proper noun A river in Maine; running from Jefferson into the Sheepscot River at the village of Sheepscot in Newcastle.
  9. proper noun A bay near Steuben, Maine.

Synonyms

dyester litster

Etymology

From dye + -er.

* As an English surname, from dyer (“one who dyes”). Compare Dexter.
* As an Irish surname, variant of Dwyer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.

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

Sanskrit

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