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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mark

UK /mɑːk/ · US /mɑɹk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of murk

Forms marks marking marked marke merk marc Mark.

  1. noun (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.
  2. noun (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence.
  3. noun A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
  4. noun (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
  5. noun (archaic) A type of small region or principality.
  6. noun (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
  7. noun An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
  8. noun A characteristic feature. “A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.”
  9. verb To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something). “to mark a box or bale of merchandise”
  10. verb To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something). “See where this pencil has marked the paper.”
  11. verb (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
  12. verb To create an indication of (a location). “She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.”
  13. verb To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located. “This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.”
  14. verb To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols. “Prices are marked on individual items.”
  15. verb To create (a mark) on a surface.
  16. verb To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind. “The national holiday is marked by fireworks.”
  17. noun (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
  18. noun (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
  19. noun (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
  20. noun (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.

Synonyms

Mk Mk. heed observance blemish scar scratch stain demonstrate indicate manifest reveal show signal display write draw trace commemorate solemnize grade score marker marking target print stigma brand German mark Deutsche Mark

Etymology

From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”).
* Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”)
* German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“mark, brand”)
* Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”)
* Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”)
* Latin margō (“edge, margin”)
* Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”)
* Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).

From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight, usu. a pound, of silver or gold”). Doublet of markka.

From German Mark, from Middle High German marc, marche, marke, from Old High German marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark (whence etymology 2 via Old English marc). The identical plural is also from German.

An alternative form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A license of reprisals. See Marque.
  2. noun An old weight and coin. See Marc. "Lend me a mark." Chaucer.
  3. noun The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money; the equivalent of one hundred pfennigs.
  4. noun A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything; esp., a line, point, stamp, figure, or the like, drawn or impressed, so as to attract the attention and convey some information or intimation; a token; a trace.

Etymology [See 2d Marc.]

Etymology [OE. marke, merke, AS. mearc; akin to D. merk, MHG. marc, G. marke, Icel. mark, Dan. mærke; cf. Lith. margas party- colored. sq. root106, 273. Cf. Remark.]

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

Sanskrit

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