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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lighter

UK /ˈlaɪtə/ · US /ˈlaɪtɚ/ noun, verb

Also a form of light

Forms lighters lightering lightered

  1. noun A person who lights things. “a lighter of lamps”
  2. noun A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes. “Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter.”
  3. noun A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
  4. verb To transfer (cargo or passengers) to or from a ship by means of a lighter or other small vessel.
  5. verb To transfer cargo or fuel from (a ship), lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.

Synonyms

briquet igniter ignitor light barge flatboat hoy

Etymology

From light (“to ignite”) + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch lichtere, lichter (“one who spreads light, illuminator”), Dutch lichter, luchter (“candle-holder, chandelier”). Compare also Middle English lightnere, liȝtnere (“one who enlightens or illuminates”).

From Middle English lightere, lyghtere, equivalent to light (“to unload, lighten”) + -er. Compare West Frisian lichter (“lighter ship”), Dutch lichter (“lighter ship”), Middle Low German lichter, lüchter, lüchtære (“a small ship that lightens a load, lighter ship”).

From light (“pale”) + -er (“comparative”).

From light (“not heavy, weak”) + -er (“comparative”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
  2. noun A large boat or barge, mainly, used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery. Lighter screw (Mach.), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.
  3. verb To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.

Etymology [D. ligter, fr. ligt light. See Light not heavy.]

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

Sanskrit

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