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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serpent

UK /ˈsɜːpənt/ · US /ˈsɝpənt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms serpents serpenting serpented the Serpent

  1. noun (archaic or literary) A snake.
  2. noun (mythology, fantasy) A snake-like creature, such as a sea serpent.
  3. noun (figurative) A person who is subtle, malicious, treacherous, or deceiving.
  4. noun (music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
  5. noun A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
  6. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To wind or meander
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To encircle.
  8. proper noun Synonym of Serpens (a constellation).
  9. proper noun (figuratively) Synonym of Satan or referencing the form he took in the Book of Genesis (a serpent).

Synonyms

backstabber double-crosser betrayer cockatrice quisling rat ratter recreant renegade snake snake in the grass swike traitor treacher treacherer treasonist turntippet withersake wolf in sheep's clothing adder ophidian

Etymology

From Middle English serpent, from Old French serpent (“snake, serpent”), from Latin serpēns (“snake”), present active participle of serpere (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Italic *serpō, from Proto-Indo-European *serp-. In this sense, displaced native Old English nǣdre (“snake, serpent”), whence Modern English adder.
Compare Sanskrit सर्प (sarpa, “snake”), which is a descendant of the same Proto-Indo-European word as serpent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
  2. noun Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
  3. verb To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander. [R.] "The serpenting of the Thames." Evelyn.
  4. verb To wind; to encircle. [R.] Evelyn.

Etymology [F., fr. L. serpens, -entis (sc. bestia), fr. serpens, p. pr. of serpere to creep; akin to Gr. sarp, and perhaps to L. repere, E. reptile. Cf. Herpes.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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