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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sac

/sæk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of Sauk

Forms sacs sacking saccing sacked sacced

  1. noun A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
  2. verb (transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice. “Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.”
  3. noun (transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice. “Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.”
  4. noun (UK, law, historical) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
  5. proper noun (informal) The city of Sacramento, California, United States.

Synonyms

pouch sack pocket theca Sauk

Etymology

Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.

Clipping of sacrifice.

See sake, soc.

Clipping of Sacramento.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Sace.
  2. noun The privilege formerly enjoyed the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. Cowell.
  3. noun See 2d Sack.
  4. noun A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.

Etymology [See Sake, Soc.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. saccus a sack. See Sack a bag.]

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

Sanskrit

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