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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rim

/ɹɪm/ noun, verb

Also a form of lin ream

Forms rims rimming rimmed

  1. noun An edge around something, especially when circular.
  2. noun (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
  3. noun (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
  4. noun (wine) The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
  5. verb (transitive) To form a rim on.
  6. verb (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit. “Palm trees rim the beach.”
  7. verb (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim. “The golf ball rimmed the cup.”
  8. verb (bartending) To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
  9. verb (vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
  10. noun (UK dialectal) A membrane.
  11. noun (UK dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
  12. noun (UK, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.

Synonyms

lip out flange brim lip

Etymology

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).

From a variation of ream.

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.

Unknown.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
  2. noun The lower part of the abdomen. [Obs.] Shak. Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate.
  3. verb To furnish with a rim; to border.

Etymology [As. rima, reoma, edge; cf. W. rhim, rhimp, a rim, edge, boundary, termination, Armor, rim. Cf. Rind.]

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

Sanskrit

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