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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piper

UK /ˈpaɪ.pə/ · US /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of pepper

Forms pipers

  1. noun A musician who plays a pipe.
  2. noun A bagpiper.
  3. noun A baby pigeon.
  4. noun A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
  5. noun A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
  6. noun A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
  7. noun (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse.
  8. noun (slang) A person who smokes crack cocaine.
  9. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
  10. proper noun A female given name transferred from the surname, used since the mid-twentieth century, first by the American actress Piper Laurie.
  11. proper noun An American aviation manufacturer, Piper Aircraft Inc., named after its early owner William T. Piper.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Iowa.
  13. proper noun A neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri.
  15. noun An airplane made by Piper.

Synonyms

bagpiper squab baby pigeon pigeon chick Pyper genus Piper

Etymology

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Pepper.
  2. noun One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe. "The hereditary piper and his sons." Macaulay.
  3. noun (a) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.

Etymology [L.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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