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

silken

/ˈsɪlkən/ adjective, verb

Forms silkens silkening silkened

  1. adjective Made of silk. “a silken veil”
  2. adjective Having a smooth, soft, or light texture.
  3. adjective Suave.
  4. adjective (figuratively, of speech or singing) Having a smooth, soft, or flowing utterance; attractive or (typically derogatory) convincing through pleasing expression.
  5. adjective Dressed in silk.
  6. verb (transitive) To render silken or silklike.

Synonyms

silk seric satiny sleek silky silklike slick

Etymology

From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
  2. adjective Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. "Silken terms precise." Shak.
  3. verb To render silken or silklike. Dyer.

Etymology [AS. seolcen, seolocen.]

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

Sanskrit

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