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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gird

UK /ɡɜːd/ · US /ɡɝd/ verb, noun

Forms girds girding girded girt

  1. verb (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord. “The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.”
  2. verb (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt. “a castle girded with a moat”
  3. verb (transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.
  4. verb (nautical, intransitive) (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
  5. noun A sarcastic remark.
  6. noun A stroke with a rod or switch.
  7. noun A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
  8. verb (transitive) To jeer at.
  9. verb (intransitive) To jeer.

Synonyms

girdle flout jibe fleer jeer scoff scorn laugh at sneer arm build up fortify encircle

Etymology

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).

From Middle English girden (“to strike”), from Old English *gyrdan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
  2. noun A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
  3. verb To strike; to smite. [Obs.]
  4. verb To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.

Etymology [See Yard a measure.]

Etymology [See Gird, n., and cf. Girde, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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