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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leather

UK /ˈlɛðə/ · US /ˈlɛðɚ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms leathers leathering leathered

  1. noun A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing; often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier specifies otherwise.
  2. noun A piece of the above used for polishing.
  3. noun (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
  4. noun (plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
  5. noun (baseball) A good defensive play “Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.”
  6. noun (boxing) A punch.
  7. noun (dated, humorous) The skin.
  8. adjective Made of leather.
  9. adjective Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
  10. adjective Referring to an establishment of familial relations through agreed sexual or romantic deviance.
  11. verb (transitive) To cover with leather.
  12. verb (ambitransitive) To form a leathery surface (on).
  13. verb (transitive) To strike forcefully. “He leathered the ball all the way down the street.”
  14. verb (transitive) To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

leathern

Etymology

From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro- (“skin, hide”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leder (“leather”), West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”). Compare also English fell (“skin, hide, pelt”), film.

English surname, from the noun leather.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
  2. noun The skin. [Ironical or Sportive]
  3. verb To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.] G. Eliot.

Etymology [OE. lether, AS. le; akin to D. leder, leêr, G. leder, OHG. ledar, Icel. le, Sw. läder, Dan. læder.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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