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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flaw

UK /flɔː/ · US /flɔ/ noun, verb

Forms flaws flawing flawed flawe

  1. noun (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
  2. noun (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
  3. noun A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. “There is a flaw in that knife.”
  4. noun A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
  5. noun (in particular) An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
  6. noun (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective. “a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute”
  7. verb (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
  8. verb (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
  9. noun A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
  10. noun A storm of short duration.
  11. noun A sudden burst of noise and disorder

Synonyms

vice tumult uproar quarrel defect fault blemish

Etymology

From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”).
Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).

From Middle English *flaugh, from Middle Dutch vlāghe or Middle Low German vlāge, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *flagā. Or, possibly of North Germanic origin, from Swedish flaga (“gust of wind”), from Old Norse flaga; all from Proto-Germanic *flagǭ (“blow, strike”). See modern Dutch vlaag (“gust of wind”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
  2. noun A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
  3. verb To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.
  4. verb To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. flai, flaw flake; cf. Sw. flaga flaw, crack, breach, flake, D. vlaag gust of wind, Norw. flage, flaag, and E. flag a flat stone.]

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

Sanskrit

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