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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flame

/fleɪm/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms flames flaming flamed

  1. noun The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
  2. noun A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
  3. noun (Internet, somewhat dated) An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.
  4. noun A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
  5. noun (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl. “The cello has a two-piece back with a beautiful narrow flame.”
  6. noun Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
  7. noun (obsolete, botany) A variety of carnation.
  8. adjective Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.
  9. verb To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
  10. verb To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
  11. verb (Internet, ambitransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody). “I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.”

Synonyms

admirer adorer baby beloved courter crush darling enamorado follower leman loteby love love interest lover paramour sparker sweetheart truelove wooer abuse fire flaming flare

Etymology

From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.

From Middle English flawmen, from Old French flamber, flammer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
  2. noun Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." Milton.
  3. verb To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
  4. verb To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.

Etymology [OE. flame, flaume, flaumbe, OF. flame, flambe, F. flamme, fr. L. flamma, fr. flamma, fr. flagrare to burn. See Flagrant, and cf. Flamneau, Flamingo.]

Etymology [OE. flamen, flaumben, F. flamber, OF. also, flamer. See Flame, n.]

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

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