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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filth

/fɪlθ/ noun

Forms filths the filth

  1. noun Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles. “Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.”
  2. noun Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. “He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.”
  3. noun (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.
  4. noun (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land. “Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.”
  5. noun (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) The police. “We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived.”

Synonyms

crud skank dirt grime soil stain grease grunge filthiness foulness nastiness obscenity smut vulgarism dirty word

Etymology

From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
  2. noun Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Etymology [OE. filthe, fulthe, AS. f, fr. ful foul; akin to OHG. fulida. See Foul, and cf. File.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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