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

“ladeth” is a form of

lade

/leɪd/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms lades lading laded laden

  1. verb To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
  2. verb To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
  3. verb To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). “to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern”
  4. verb To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
  5. verb (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
  6. noun (Scotland) A load.
  7. noun (UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
  8. noun (UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
  9. noun (Scotland) (mill lade) A mill race.
  10. noun (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).
  13. proper noun An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.

Synonyms

ladle laden load load up

Etymology

From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).

From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).

* As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”).
* As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig.
* Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”).
* As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; --generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.
  2. verb To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.
  3. verb To draw water. [Obs.]
  4. verb To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.

Etymology [AS. hladan to heap, load, draw (water); akin to D. & G. laden to load, OHG. hladan, ladan, Icel. hla, Sw. ladda, Dan. lade, Goth. afhlapan. Cf. Load, Ladle, Lathe for turning, Last a load.]

Etymology [See Lade, v. t.]

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