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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mischief

UK /ˈmɪsˌt͡ʃiːf/ · US /ˈmɪs.t͡ʃɪf/ noun, verb

Forms mischiefs mischiefing mischiefed mischieve

  1. noun (uncountable) Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance. “Drink led to mischief.”
  2. noun (countable) A playfully annoying action. “John's mischief, tying his shoelaces together, irked George at first.”
  3. noun (collective) A nest or pack of mice or rats.
  4. noun (uncountable) Harm or trouble caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause. “She had mischief in her heart.”
  5. noun (countable) An injury or an instance of harm or trouble caused by a person or other agent or cause. “It may end in her doing a great mischief to herself—and perhaps to others too.”
  6. noun (law) A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
  7. noun (archaic, countable) A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
  8. noun (euphemistic) The Devil; used as an expletive.
  9. verb (transitive) To do a mischief to; to harm.
  10. verb (transitive) To slander.

Synonyms

delinquency naughtiness roguery scampishness atrociousness awfulness badness corruption corruptness criminality dacoity depravity enormity evil evilness immorality knavery nefariousness rascality savagery mischief-making mischievousness deviltry devilry devilment roguishness shenanigan maleficence balefulness

Antonyms

decorum gentlemanliness gentility seemliness sportsmanship probity propriety

Etymology

From Middle English myschef, meschef, meschief, mischef, from Old French meschief, from meschever (“to bring to grief”), from mes- (“badly”) + chever (“happen; come to a head”), from Vulgar Latin *capare, from Latin caput (“head”).

From Middle English myschefen, myscheven, from Old French meschever.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. Chaucer.
  2. noun Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble. Milton.
  3. verb To do harm to. [Obs.] Milton.

Etymology [OE. meschef bad result, OF. meschief; pref. mes- (L. minus less) + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and Chief.]

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

Sanskrit

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