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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scent

/sɛnt/ noun, verb

Forms scents scenting scented sent

  1. noun A distinctive smell. “the scent of flowers / of a skunk”
  2. noun A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing. “The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.”
  3. noun The sense of smell. “I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.”
  4. noun (chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell. “a scent shop”
  5. noun (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase. “The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.”
  6. noun (obsolete) Sense, perception.
  7. verb (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell. “The hounds scented the fox in the woods.”
  8. verb (ambitransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
  9. verb (transitive, figurative) To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something). “I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.”
  10. verb (transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell. “Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.”
  11. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
  12. verb To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Synonyms

aroma bouquet fragrance nosegay odor perfume redolence smell olfaction aftershave cologne eau de toilette toilet water sniff detect discern perceive sense odorize olfactory property odour odourise nose wind

Etymology

From Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell, sense”), from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel, sense”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”), Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), German Sinn (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
  2. verb To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
  3. verb To have a smell. [Obs.]
  4. verb To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Etymology [Originally sent, fr. F. sentir to feel, to smell. See Sense.]

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

Sanskrit

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