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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mist

/mɪst/ noun, verb

Also a form of MST

Forms mists misting misted

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.) “It was difficult to see through the morning mist.”
  2. noun (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles. “There was an oily mist on the lens.”
  3. noun (figurative) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
  4. verb (intransitive) To form mist. “It's misting this morning.”
  5. verb (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. “I mist my tropical plants every morning.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
  7. verb (transitive) To cover with a mist. “The lens was misted.”
  8. verb (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears. “My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.”
  9. verb (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

Synonyms

brume mist over obscure befog becloud obnubilate haze over fog cloud

Etymology

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).
The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
  2. noun Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.
  3. verb To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim. Shak.
  4. verb To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

Etymology [AS. mist; akin to D. & Sw. mist, Icel. mistr, G. mist dung, Goth. maíhstus, AS. migan to make water, Icel. miga, Lith. migla mist, Russ. mgla, L. mingere, meiere, to make water, gr. mih to make water, n., a mist m*gha cloud. *102. Cf. Misle, Mizzle, Mixen.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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