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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loft

UK /lɒft/ · US /lɔft/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms lofts lofting lofted

  1. noun (obsolete, except in derivatives) Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
  2. noun An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
  3. noun Such an attic used as an atelier. “an artist's loft”
  4. noun (textiles, countable, uncountable) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. “maximum loft”
  5. noun A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc. “a choir loft”
  6. noun (chiefly US) A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building. “a Manhattan loft”
  7. noun (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
  8. noun (cricket) A lofted drive.
  9. verb (transitive) To propel high into the air.
  10. verb (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
  11. verb (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
  12. verb (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
  13. verb (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
  14. adjective (obsolete, rare) Lofty; proud; haughty.
  15. noun (nuclear industry) loss of fluid test
  16. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

loss of fluid test attic garret pigeon loft

Etymology

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.
Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).

* From Middle English lofte (“loft, attic”), possibly a surname given to a household servant who worked in an upper chamber; see the noun loft.
* Borrowed from Danish Loft, a habitational surname.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: (a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
  2. adjective Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] Surrey.

Etymology [Icel. lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin to AS. lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air. Cf. Lift, v. & n.]

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

Sanskrit

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