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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frost

UK /fɹɒst/ · US /fɹɔst/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms frosts frosting frosted froste

  1. noun A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
  2. noun The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
  3. noun (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
  4. noun (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
  5. noun A shade of white, like that of frost.
  6. noun (slang, dated) A disappointment; a cheat.
  7. noun (television) A kind of light diffuser.
  8. verb (transitive) To cover with frost.
  9. verb (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
  10. verb (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
  11. verb (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy. “I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.”
  12. verb (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
  13. verb (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
  16. proper noun A township in Clare County, Michigan.
  17. proper noun A minor city in Faribault County, Minnesota.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Athens County, Ohio.
  19. proper noun A minor city in Navarro County, Texas.
  20. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Synonyms

hoar hoarfrost rime freeze icing Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost ice

Etymology

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

English, German, Swedish and Danish surname, all from the noun frost.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of freezing; --applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
  2. noun The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
  3. verb To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
  4. verb To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.

Etymology [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freósan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. *18. See Freeze, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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