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

lax

/læks/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of lacrosse

Forms laxes laxer laxest

  1. noun (now chiefly UK dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
  2. adjective Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. “The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.”
  3. adjective Loose; not tight or taut. “The rope fell lax.”
  4. adjective Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
  5. adjective (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
  6. adjective (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheic.
  7. adjective (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
  8. noun (slang) lacrosse.
  9. proper noun Los Angeles International Airport
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

permissive lenient relaxed clement easygoing forbearing indulgent loose-handed permissible remissful safe soft soft-handed loose slack blameworthy lash negligent remiss reprehensible

Antonyms

strict taut tight tense

Etymology

From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox.

Borrowed from Latin laxus (“wide, roomy, loose”).

By replacement of the syllable crosse with the cross-shaped letter x.

From the IATA airport code.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
  2. adjective Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
  3. noun A looseness; diarrhea.

Etymology [L. laxus Cf. Laches, Languish, Lease, v. t., Leash.]

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

Sanskrit

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