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

“plaits” is a form of

plait

/pleɪt/ noun, verb

Forms plaits plaiting plaited

  1. noun A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. “a box plait”
  2. noun A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
  3. verb (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat “to plait a ruffle”
  4. verb (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid “to plait hair”

Synonyms

braid tress twist pleat lace

Etymology

From Middle English pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (compare Old French ploit), from Latin plectō, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette), Russian плести́ (plestí) and also to Old English fleohtan, which it displaced. Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”) and pleat.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
  2. noun A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. (Med.) Same as Plica.
  3. verb To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
  4. verb To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.

Etymology [OE. playte, OF. pleit, L. plicatum, plicitum, p.p. of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat to weave, Pleat, Plight fold.]

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

Sanskrit

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