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

spat

/spæt/ noun, verb

Also a form of spate spit

Forms spats spatting spatted

  1. noun The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
  2. noun A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To spawn, used of shellfish as above.
  4. noun (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
  5. noun (automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
  6. noun (aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
  7. noun A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. “get into a trivial spat over punctuality”
  8. verb (intransitive, originally US) To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.
  9. noun A light blow with something flat.
  10. verb (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
  11. verb (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
  12. noun An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.

Synonyms

fender skirt tiff squabble barney bicker quarrel wrangle argue tift quibble row pettifog bickering pettifoggery fuss gaiter applaud clap acclaim

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps related to spit.

Shortening of spatterdash, from spatter + dash. 1779.

1804. American English, probably imitative.

Attested from 1823.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
  2. verb To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
  3. noun A light blow with something flat. [U.S. & Prov. Eng.]
  4. noun Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension. [U. S.]

Etymology [From the root of spit; hence, literally, that which is ejected.]

Etymology [Cf. Pat.]

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

Sanskrit

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