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

limb

/lɪm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms limbs limbing limbed

  1. noun A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
  2. noun A branch of a tree.
  3. noun (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
  4. noun An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
  5. noun A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
  6. verb (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree). “They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.”
  7. verb (transitive) To supply with limbs.
  8. verb (transitive) To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs “Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.”
  9. noun (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body. “the solar limb”
  10. noun (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
  11. noun (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bough delimb tree branch arm branch

Etymology

From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.

From Latin limbus (“border”).

Variant of Lum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
  2. noun An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
  3. verb To supply with limbs. [R.] Milton.
  4. verb To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

Etymology [OE. lim, AS. lim; akin to Icel. limr limb, lim branch of a tree, Sw. & Dan. lem limb; cf. also AS. li, OHG. lid, gilid, G. glied, Goth. lipus. Cf. Lith, Limber.]

Etymology [L. limbus border. Cf. Limbo, Limbus.]

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

Sanskrit

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