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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lame

/leɪm/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms lamer lamest lames laming lamed

  1. adjective (especially of an animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs. “With the years, this horse has little by little gone lame.”
  2. adjective (of a limb, especially a foot or leg) That cannot be moved properly.
  3. adjective (dated, now offensive) Physically disabled. “a lame man”
  4. adjective (by extension, dated) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
  5. adjective (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable. “He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.”
  6. adjective (colloquial) Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny. “He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.”
  7. verb (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
  8. noun (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
  9. noun A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
  10. noun (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
  11. noun A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
  12. noun (uncountable) A fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.
  13. noun (fencing, countable) The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

crippled gammy weak cripple disable lamella lamina square feeble halt halting gimpy game

Antonyms

efficient perfect convincing believable

Etymology

From Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃lemH- (“to tire; to break”).

From Middle French lame, from Latin lāmina. Doublet of lamina.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. "A lame endeavor." Barrow.
  2. verb To make lame.

Etymology [OE. lame, AS. lama; akin to D. lam, G. lahm,OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. lomate to break, lomota rheumatism.]

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

Sanskrit

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