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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mute

UK /mjuːt/ · US /mjut/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms muter mutest mutes muting muted

  1. adjective Not having the power of speech; dumb.
  2. adjective Silent; not making a sound.
  3. adjective Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
  4. adjective Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
  5. noun (phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop.
  6. noun (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
  7. noun A person who does not have the power of speech.
  8. noun A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
  9. noun (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
  10. noun An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
  11. noun A mute swan.
  12. noun (Internet) An action of muting, especially in a discussion forum as a penalty for breaking rules.
  13. verb (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
  14. verb (transitive) To turn off the sound of. “Please mute the music while I make a call.”
  15. verb (transitive) To cause the content or messages of (a social media account, a website, etc.) to no longer appear on one's feed, trigger notifications, or similar, especially without fully blocking.
  16. verb (archaic) Of a bird: to defecate.
  17. noun The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
  18. verb (transitive) To cast off; to moult.

Synonyms

aphonic aphonous dumb dumb as a post mumchance tongueless unspeaking voiceless occlusive plosive stop deaf-mute deaf-and-dumb person muffle dull damp dampen tone down unspoken wordless silent

Antonyms

audible nonmute talkative vocal voiced unmute

Etymology

From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.

From Middle French muetir, probably a shortened form of esmeutir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

From Latin mutare (“to change”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cast off; to molt.
  2. verb To eject the contents of the bowels; --said of birds. B. Jonson.
  3. noun The dung of birds. Hudibras.
  4. adjective Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.

Etymology [L. mutare to change. See Molt.]

Etymology [F. mutir, émeutir, OF. esmeltir, fr. OD. smelten, prop., to melt. See Smelt.]

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

Sanskrit

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