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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

oil

/ɔɪl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms oils oiling oiled oyl

  1. noun Liquid fat.
  2. noun Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
  3. noun Petroleum. “Oil is found in countries such as Saudi Arabia and is transported all over the world.”
  4. noun (countable) An oil painting.
  5. noun (painting) Oil paint. “I prefer to paint in oil”
  6. verb (transitive) To lubricate with oil.
  7. verb (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.
  8. verb (transitive) To fuel with oil.
  9. verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To say in an unctuous manner.
  10. proper noun A surname from Indonesian
  11. proper noun A township in Perry County, Indiana, United States, named after Oil Creek (Ohio River tributary).

Synonyms

oil color oil colour petroleum crude oil crude rock oil fossil oil vegetable oil anoint inunct anele embrocate

Etymology

From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Old French oile, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Doublet of oleum. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.

From Middle English oylen, from the noun (see above).

From Indonesian Oil.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
  2. verb To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

Etymology [OE. oile, OF. oile, F. huile, fr. L. oleum; akin to Gr. Olive.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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