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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latch

/læt͡ʃ/ verb, noun

Also a form of leach

Forms latches latching latched laught lech letch

  1. verb To close or lock as if with a latch.
  2. verb (transitive) To catch; lay hold of.
  3. verb (databases) To use a latch (kind of lightweight lock).
  4. verb (of a breastfeeding baby) To connect to the breast.
  5. noun A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
  6. noun (electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
  7. noun (obsolete) A latching.
  8. noun (obsolete) A crossbow.
  9. noun (obsolete) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
  10. noun A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
  11. noun (databases) A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
  12. verb (obsolete) To smear; to anoint.

Synonyms

door latch

Etymology

From Middle English lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”, verb), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”), from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, *lakwijaną, *lakkijaną (“to seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂g-, *(s)leh₂gʷ- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lakken (“to grasp, catch”).

From Middle English latche, lacche (“a latch; a trap”), from lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”). See above for more.

Compare French lécher (“to lick”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To smear; to anoint. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. noun That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
  3. noun A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.
  4. verb To catch so as to hold. [Obs.]

Etymology [Cf. F. lécher to lick (of German origin). Cf. Lick.]

Etymology [OE. lacche, fr. lacchen to seize, As. læccan.]

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

Sanskrit

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