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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salve

UK /sɑːv/ · US /sæ(l)v/ noun, verb, interjection

Forms salves salving salved

  1. noun An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  2. noun Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. “Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.”
  3. verb (transitive) To calm or assuage.
  4. verb To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  5. verb To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  6. verb (dated) To salvage.
  7. verb (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
  8. verb (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
  9. verb (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
  10. interjection Hail; a greeting.
  11. verb (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

Synonyms

ointment unction unguent balm salvage relieve save

Etymology

From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”).
Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).

From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).

From Latin salvō (“to save”).

From Latin salvē. The verb is from the interjection.

Webster’s 1913

  1. interjection Hail!
  2. verb To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute. [Obs.]
  3. noun An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer.
  4. noun A soothing remedy or antidote.

Etymology [L., hail, God save you, imperat. of salvere to be well. Cf. Salvo a volley.]

Etymology [AS. sealf ointment; akin to LG. salwe, D. zalve, zalf, OHG. salba, Dan. salve, Sw. salva, Goth. salb to anoint, and probably to Gr. (Hesychius) sapris clarified butter. sq. root155, 291.]

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

Sanskrit

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