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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mad

/ˈmæd/ adjective, adverb, verb, proper noun

Also a form of made

Forms madder maddest mads madding madded

  1. adjective (chiefly UK) Insane; crazy; mentally deranged. “You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?”
  2. adjective (chiefly US, informal in UK and Ireland) Angry; annoyed. “Are you mad at me?”
  3. adjective (chiefly US, chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval. “Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.”
  4. adjective (UK, Ireland, informal) Bizarre; incredible. “It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.”
  5. adjective Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
  6. adjective Wildly confused or excited. “to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred”
  7. adjective (colloquial, usually with for, on or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for. “Aren't you just mad for that red dress?”
  8. adjective (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies. “a mad dog”
  9. adverb (slang, chiefly New York, African-American Vernacular, UK and Ireland, dialectal) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably. “He was driving mad slow.”
  10. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To be or become mad.
  11. verb (now colloquial US, Jamaica) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
  12. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Madeline (and its variants).

Synonyms

5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed huffy sore brainsick crazy demented disturbed sick unbalanced unhinged delirious

Etymology

From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ġemǣd, ġemǣded (“enraged”), past participle of ġemǣdan, *mǣdan (“to make insane or foolish”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to change; damage; cripple; injure; make mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz ("weak; crippled"; compare Old English gemād (“silly, mad”), Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), literary German gemeit (“mad, insane”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change"; compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit मेथति (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).

Inherited from Middle English madden. Compare Old English ġemǣdan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. of Made. Chaucer.
  2. adjective Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
  3. adjective Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.
  4. verb To make mad or furious; to madden.

Etymology [AS. gem, gemad, mad; akin to OS. gem foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel. mei to hurt, Goth. gamáids weak, broken. 1. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. Shak. 2. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jer. 1. 88. And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Acts xxvi. 11. 3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.). 4. Extravagant; immoderate. "Be mad and merry." Shak. "Fetching mad bounds." Shak. 5. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog. 6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. [Colloq.]

Etymology [AS. ma; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.]

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

Sanskrit

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