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

sandy

/ˈsændi/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms sandier sandiest sandies Sandys Sandi Sandie

  1. adjective Covered with sand.
  2. adjective Sprinkled with sand.
  3. adjective Containing sand. “Some plants grow best in sandy soil.”
  4. adjective Like sand, especially in texture.
  5. adjective Having the colour of sand.
  6. noun (informal) A sandwich
  7. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandeep, Sanford, and Santiago.
  8. proper noun A diminutive of the female given names Sandra, Alexandra, and Cassandra.
  9. proper noun A market town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1649).
  10. proper noun A settlement in Llanelli Rural community, Carmarthenshire, Wales, just west of Llanelli town (OS grid ref SN4900).
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida.
  12. proper noun A city in Clackamas County, Oregon.
  13. proper noun A census-designated place in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
  14. proper noun A city in Salt Lake County, Utah.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
  17. noun (slang) A Scotsman.
  18. noun The A-1 Sky Raider aircraft.
  19. noun The A-10 Avenger II aircraft.

Synonyms

flaxen arenaceous sandlike

Etymology

From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).

From clippings + -y

* (Bedfordshire): Recorded as Sandeie in the Domesday Book, the town is named with Old English sand (“sand”) + īeġ (“island”). Doublet of Sanday.
* (Carmarthenshire): From Welsh sant + dŷ (“house of the saint”)
* (Tyneside (Geordie)): sand + -y

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
  2. adjective Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.

Etymology [AS. sandig.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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