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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nude

/n(j)uːd/ adjective, noun

Forms nuder nudest nudes

  1. adjective (not comparable) Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples. “Why do you act so prudish whenever you see nude people?”
  2. adjective (of clothing, makeup, etc., comparable) Of a color (such as beige or tan) that evokes bare flesh.
  3. adjective (law, archaic, not comparable) Not valid; void.
  4. noun A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress. “Michelangelo's David is a well-known standing male nude; Michelangelo also created several other nudes.”
  5. noun (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity. “she caught him in the nude”
  6. noun A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color.

Synonyms

flesh-colored skin-colored carnation nude painting nude person nude sculpture nude statue bare au naturel naked

Etymology

Entered English 1493 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," from Middle English nud, from Latin nūdus (“naked, bare”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.
  2. adjective Naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See Nudum pactum. Blackstone. The nude, the undraped human figure in art. -- Nude"ly, adv.- Nude"ness, n.

Etymology [L. nudus. See Naked.]

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

Sanskrit

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