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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shatter

UK /ˈʃætə/ · US /ˈʃætɚ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms shatters shattering shattered

  1. verb (ergative) Of brittle solid materials (like glass or ice), to violently break into pieces. “The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.”
  2. verb (transitive) To destroy, disable.
  3. verb (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat. “to be shattered in intellect”
  4. verb (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To scatter about.
  6. verb (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
  7. noun (countable, archaic) A fragment of anything shattered. “to break a glass into shatters”
  8. noun A (pine) needle.
  9. noun A scattering, a smattering; a quantity of something scattered, like a sprinkling of seeds or a shower of rain.
  10. noun (uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

shiver shat

Etymology

From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
  2. verb To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
  3. verb To be broken into fragments; to fal Some fragile bodies break but where the force is; some shatter and fly in many places. Bacon.
  4. noun A fragment of anything shattered; --used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. Swift.

Etymology [OE. schateren, scateren, to scatter, to dash, AS. scateran; cf. D. schateren to crack, to make a great noise, OD. schetteren to scatter, to burst, to crack. Cf. Scatter.]

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

Sanskrit

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