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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mason

/ˈmeɪsən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms masons masoning masoned

  1. noun A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick.
  2. noun One who prepares stone for building purposes.
  3. noun A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
  4. verb (transitive, normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons
  5. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a stonemason.
  6. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  7. proper noun A town in Effingham County, Illinois.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Grant County, Kentucky.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
  10. proper noun A city, the county seat of Ingham County, Michigan.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Houghton County, Michigan.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada.
  13. noun A Freemason.

Synonyms

George Mason James Mason James Neville Mason A. E. W. Mason Alfred Edward Woodley Mason stonemason Freemason

Etymology

From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
  2. noun A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. Mason bee (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of solitary bees of the genus Osmia. They construct curious nests of hardened mud and sand.
  3. verb To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; --with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

Etymology [F. ma, LL. macio, machio, mattio, mactio, marcio, macerio; of uncertain origin.]

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

Sanskrit

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