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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green

UK /ˈɡɹiːn/ · US /ˈɡɹin/ noun, adjective, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms greens greener greenest greening greened Greene Grene

  1. noun The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
  2. noun (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
  3. noun (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
  4. noun (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
  5. noun (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
  6. noun (UK) A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  7. noun A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
  8. noun (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
  9. adjective Of a green hue. “He is wearing a green shirt.”
  10. adjective (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell. “Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?”
  11. adjective Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  12. adjective (figurative) Inexperienced. “John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.”
  13. adjective (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.
  14. adjective (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young. “a green manhood”
  15. adjective (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
  16. adjective (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy. “He was green with envy.”
  17. verb (transitive) To make or turn (something) green or greener.
  18. verb To become or grow green in color.
  19. verb (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
  20. verb (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.

Synonyms

emerald lime environmentalist greenie tree hugger treehugger bowling green bhang benj boo broccoli bud buddha cannabis cheeba choof daccha dank devil's lettuce djamba greenness viridity park commons common William Green Green River putting green putting surface greens

Antonyms

nongreen ungreen ripe processed smoked spiced cloy sweet antigreen

Etymology

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. Doublet of Gruen.
See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Faroese grønur, Icelandic grænn.
The sense of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is a semantic loan from Spanish verde. In other varieties of English, blue is the color instead associated with obscenity or pornography.

From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōnijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, German grünen, Swedish gröna, Icelandic gróna.

From the colors used on traffic lights; green being the one that allows vehicles to move on.

English surname, a topographic name for someone who either lived near a village green, or was just fond of the colour. This name is also translated from other surnames, such as German Grün and Gruen, Dutch Groen, Irish Ó hUainí (from uaine, see Honan), etc. The Irish surname was also erroneously translated from Ó Fathaidh, Ó Fathaigh, from faithche (“lawn”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
  2. adjective Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. Shak.
  3. noun The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
  4. noun A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.

Etymology [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

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

Sanskrit

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