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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sickly

/ˈsɪkli/ adjective, verb, adverb

Forms sicklier sickliest sicklies sicklying sicklied

  1. adjective Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly. “a sickly child”
  2. adjective Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
  3. adjective Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth. (of a plant)
  4. adjective Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness. “a sickly pallor”
  5. adjective Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
  6. adjective Lacking intensity or vigour. “a sickly smile”
  7. adjective Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
  8. adjective Tending to produce nausea. “a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality”
  9. verb (transitive, archaic, literary) To make (something) sickly.
  10. verb (intransitive, rare) To become sickly.
  11. adverb In a sick manner; in a way that reflects or causes sickness. “sickly pale; to cough sickly”

Synonyms

valetudinarian faint pale wan feeble insipid weak unhealthy nauseating sickening cloying saccharine insalubrious unwholesome sallow ailing indisposed peaked poorly unwell under the weather seedy

Etymology

From Middle English seekly, sekely, siklich, sekeliche, equivalent to sick + -ly. Possibly a modification of Old English sīcle (“sickly”) and/or derived from Old Norse sjúkligr (“sickly”). Cognate with Dutch ziekelijk, Middle High German siechlich, Danish sygelig, Swedish sjuklig, Icelandic sjúklegur. The verb is from the adjective.

From sick + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
  2. adjective Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.
  3. adverb In a sick manner or condition; ill. My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. Chaucer.
  4. verb To make sick or sickly; --with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.]

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

Sanskrit

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