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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pasture

UK /ˈpɑːst͡ʃə/ · US /ˈpæst͡ʃəɹ/ noun, verb

Forms pastures pasturing pastured

  1. noun Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
  2. noun Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  3. noun (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
  4. verb (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
  5. verb (intransitive) To graze.
  6. verb (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for. “The farmer pastures fifty oxen.”

Synonyms

leasow pastureland grazing land lea ley eatage forage pasturage grass crop graze browse range

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pasture, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pastour, from Latin pastūra, from pāscor + -tūra.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Food; nourishment. [Obs.]
  2. noun Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
  3. verb To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
  4. verb To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Etymology [OF. pasture, F. pâture, L. pastura, fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. See Pastor.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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