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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laver

UK /ˈlɑːvə/ · US /ˈleɪvɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms lavers Lavar Lavehr

  1. noun A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
  2. noun Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
  3. noun Porphyra vulgaris
  4. noun Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
  5. noun That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
  6. noun The spiritual washing or ablution of baptism.
  7. noun One who laves: a washer.
  8. proper noun A surname from Anglo-Norman.
  9. proper noun A village in Iran, known for its Kerman carpets.

Synonyms

washbasin Rod Laver Rodney George Laver red laver sea lettuce

Etymology

From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).

From Middle English laver, lavour, from Old French laveoir, laveor, laveour, lavor, lavur, from Latin lavātōrium. Doublet of lavatorium and lavatory.

Occupational surname for a washerman, from Anglo-Norman laver.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A vessel for washing; a large basin.
  2. noun (a) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
  3. noun One who laves; a washer. [Obs.]
  4. noun The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purlpe laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; - -called also sloke, or sloakan. Mountain laver (Bot.), a reddish gelatinous alga of the genus Palmella, found on the sides of mountains

Etymology [OE. lavour, F. lavoir, L. lavatorium a washing place. See Lavatory.]

Etymology [From Lave to wash.]

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