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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lamp

UK /ˈlæ̞mp/ · US /ˈlæ̝mp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of limp

Forms lamps lamping lamped

  1. noun A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
  2. noun A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
  3. noun A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
  4. noun (African-American Vernacular) An eye.
  5. verb (UK, slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
  6. verb (UK, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
  7. verb (slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
  8. verb (transitive) To make (something, such as a vase or urn) into a table lamp.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

jacklight spotlight

Etymology

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thin plate or lamina. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
  3. noun Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.

Etymology [OE. (with excrescent p), fr. F. lame, L. lamina. See Lamina.]

Etymology [F. lampe, L. lampas, -adis, fr. Gr. Lampad, Lantern.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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