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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spleen

/spliːn/ noun, verb

Forms spleens spleening spleened

  1. noun (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the upper left abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
  2. noun (archaic, except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.
  3. noun (obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
  4. noun (obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
  5. noun A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
  7. verb To annoy or irritate.
  8. verb (ambitransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
  9. verb To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
  10. verb To excise or remove.

Synonyms

lien milt irascibility short temper quick temper

Etymology

From Middle English splene, splen, from Anglo-Norman espleen and Old French esplein, esplen, from Latin splēn (“milt”), from Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “the spleen”). Doublet of lien. Partially displaced the native English term milt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
  2. noun Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
  3. verb To dislke. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

Etymology [L. splen, Gr. lien, plihan, plihan.]

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

Sanskrit

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