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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freckle

UK /ˈfɹɛkl̩/ · US /ˈfɹɛk(ə)l/ noun, verb

Forms freckles freckling freckled

  1. noun A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin. “Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.”
  2. noun Any small spot which has a different colour from its background.
  3. noun A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
  4. noun (slang) The anus.
  5. verb (transitive) To cover (someone; or something, such as the skin) with freckles (noun sense 1 and noun sense 2).
  6. verb (intransitive) To become covered with freckles.

Synonyms

dirt ephelis freck lentigo

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle High German spreckel, dialectal Norwegian sprekla), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). Doublet of spark, sprack, and spry.
The verb is derived from the noun.
* Albanian fruth (“measles”)
* Old English sprecel

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.
  2. noun Any small spot or discoloration.
  3. verb To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.
  4. verb To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.

Etymology [Dim., from the same root as freak, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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