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

“roared” is a form of

roar

UK /ˈɹɔː/ · US /ˈɹoɹ/ verb, noun

Forms roars roaring roared

  1. verb (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
  2. verb To laugh in a particularly loud manner. “The audience roared at his jokes.”
  3. verb Of animals (especially a lion), to make a loud deep noise. “The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.”
  4. verb Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
  5. verb (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
  6. verb (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  7. verb To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  8. verb To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
  9. noun A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
  10. noun The cry of the lion.
  11. noun The deep cry of the bull.
  12. noun A loud resounding noise. “the roar of a motorbike”
  13. noun A show of strength or character.

Synonyms

boom roaring thunder bellow bellowing holla holler hollering hollo holloa yowl howl ululate wail yawl yaup

Etymology

From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English rārian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *rairōn, from Proto-Germanic *rairōną (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian roorje (“to roar”), German röhren (“to roar”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: (a) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
  2. verb To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
  3. verb To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  4. noun The sound of roaring. Specifically: (a) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.

Etymology [OE. roren, raren, AS. rarian; akin to G. röhten, OHG. r. sq. root112.]

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

Sanskrit

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