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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“garlands” is a form of

garland

UK /ˈɡɑː.lənd/ · US /ˈɡɑɹ.lənd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms garlands garlanding garlanded

  1. noun A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
  2. noun An accolade or mark of honour.
  3. noun (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
  4. noun The crown of a monarch.
  5. noun (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
  6. noun The top; the thing most prized.
  7. noun (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
  8. noun (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
  9. verb (transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland.
  10. verb (transitive) To form something into a garland.
  11. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of garlands.
  12. proper noun (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
  13. proper noun A town in Miller County, Arkansas.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Bourbon County, Kansas.
  15. proper noun A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri.
  17. proper noun A village in Seward County, Nebraska.
  18. proper noun A town in Sampson County, North Carolina.

Synonyms

Judy Garland florilegium miscellany wreath coronal chaplet lei

Etymology

From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierlōn, *wieralōn, a frequentative form of Frankish *wierōn (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz.
Akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.

English surname, from the noun garland. Also derived from Garland in Devon, from an ancestor of the noun gore (“triangular piece of land”) + land.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The crown of a king. [Obs.] Graffon.
  2. noun A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.
  3. verb To deck with a garland. B. Jonson.

Etymology [OE. garland, gerlond, OF. garlande, F. guirlande; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. wiara, wiera, crown, pure gold, MHG. wieren to adorn.]

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

Sanskrit

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