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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pierce

UK /pɪəs/ · US /pɪɹs/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms pierces piercing pierced Bearss

  1. verb (transitive) To puncture; to break through. “The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.”
  2. verb (transitive) To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry. “Can you believe he pierced his tongue?”
  3. verb (transitive) to break or interrupt abruptly “A dreadful scream pierced the silence.”
  4. verb (transitive, figurative) To get to the heart or crux of (a matter). “to pierce a mystery”
  5. verb (transitive, figurative) To penetrate; to affect deeply. “A stab of fear pierced my heart.”
  6. noun (nonstandard) A piercing.
  7. noun (Japan) A pierced earring.
  8. proper noun A male given name from Ancient Greek, medieval variant of Piers. Modern usage may also derive from the surname.
  9. proper noun A surname originating as a patronymic.
  10. proper noun A town in Weld County, Colorado.
  11. proper noun A minor city in Clearwater County, Idaho.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wilton Township, Will County, Illinois.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Green County, Kentucky.
  14. proper noun A city, the county seat of Pierce County, Nebraska.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas.

Synonyms

transfix Franklin Pierce President Pierce thrust

Etymology

From Middle English perce, from conjugated forms of Old French percier such as (jeo) pierce (“I pierce”), probably from Vulgar Latin *pertūsiō, from Latin pertūsus, past participle of pertundō (“thrust or bore through”), from per- (“through”) + tundō (“beat, pound”). Displaced native Old English þȳrlian (literally “to hole”).

Borrowed from Japanese ピアス (piasu, “pierced earring”), itself from English pierce.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
  2. verb To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.
  3. verb To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; --used literally and figuratively.

Etymology [OE. percen, F. percer, OF. percier, perchier, parchier; perh. fr. (assumed) LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, Pertuse.]

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

Sanskrit

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