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

shaker

/ˈʃeɪkɚ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms shakers

  1. noun A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
  2. noun A container from which granular condiments are shaken so as to be sprinkled onto food.
  3. noun A variety of pigeon.
  4. noun One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
  5. noun A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken. “Jocelyn played the shakers while her boyfriend played the acoustic guitar.”
  6. noun A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
  7. noun One of a Christian Protestant religious sect who do not marry.
  8. adjective Pertaining to a distinctive style of furniture developed by the Shakers, characterised by functionality and minimalist designs.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

cruet caster Shaking Quaker mover and shaker

Etymology

From shake + -er.

From shake + -er, from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.

From Arabic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
  2. noun One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.

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

Sanskrit

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