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

“labours” is a form of

labour

UK /ˈleɪ.bə/ · US /ˈleɪ.bɚ/ noun, verb

Forms labours labouring laboured labor

  1. noun An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
  2. noun That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
  3. noun (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
  4. noun (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
  5. noun (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
  6. noun The time period during which a mother gives birth.
  7. noun (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  8. noun (historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
  9. verb (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  10. verb (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc). “I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.”
  11. verb To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
  12. verb To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  13. verb (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

Synonyms

childbirth parturition quarter-section swink toil work grind Liebour labor working class proletariat parturiency confinement lying-in travail childbed British Labour Party Labour Party fag drudge dig moil tug push drive

Etymology

From Middle English labor, labour, labur, from Old French labor (modern labeur) and its etymon, Latin labor.

From Middle English labouren, from Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (“(intransitive) to labor, strive, exert oneself, suffer, be in distress, (transitive) to work out, elaborate”), from labor (“labor, toil, work, exertion”); perhaps remotely akin to robur (“strength”). Displaced native English swink (“toil, labor”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “labour”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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