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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legged

/ˈlɛɡɪd/ adjective, noun

Also a form of leg

Forms leggeds

  1. adjective (in combination) Having legs of a certain specified type or number. “Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.”
  2. adjective Having legs; provided with legs. “A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots.”
  3. adjective Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.
  4. noun (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs “Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.”

Antonyms

legless

Etymology

From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having (such or so many) legs; --used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged animal.

Etymology [From Leg.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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