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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start

UK /stɑːt/ · US /stɑɹt/ noun, verb, adverb, proper noun

Forms starts starting started the Start sta't staht

  1. noun The beginning of an activity. “The movie was entertaining from start to finish.”
  2. noun A sudden involuntary movement. “He woke with a start.”
  3. noun The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc. “Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.”
  4. noun An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event. “Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.”
  5. noun (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
  6. noun An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start. “to get, or have, the start”
  7. noun (UK, slang, archaic) A happening or proceeding.
  8. verb To set in motion. “to start a stream of water; to start a rumour; to start a business”
  9. verb To begin. “The President fired the gun to start the footrace.”
  10. verb To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine. “to start the engine”
  11. verb To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
  12. verb To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
  13. verb (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin. “The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.”
  14. verb (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
  15. verb (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
  16. noun An instance of starting.
  17. noun A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
  18. noun The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
  19. noun The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
  20. adverb (dialectal, archaic) Completely, utterly.

Synonyms

jump begin beginning commencement first outset get-go kickoff starting time showtime offset starting startle starting line scratch scratch line starting signal head start get down get start out set about set out commence lead off depart part set forth set off take off

Antonyms

stop end cease finish conclude complete

Etymology

From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.

From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.

From Middle English stert, start (“tail, handle, projection”), from Old English steort (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Scots start, stairt (“side post, shaft, upright post”), Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Danish stjert (“tail of a bird”), Faroese stertur (“tail”), Icelandic stertur (“short horse tail”), Norn skjårt (“tail”), sterti (“tail of a large fish”), stjårt (“tail of a large fish”), Norwegian stjert (“tail of a bird”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”).

Variant of stark.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To leap; to jump. [Obs.]
  2. verb To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. And maketh him out of his sleep to start. Chaucer.
  3. verb To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox. Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet Shak.
  4. verb To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

Etymology [OE. sterten; akin to D. storten 8hurl, rush, fall, G. stürzen, OHG. sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störa to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. *166. Cf. Start a tail.]

Etymology [Perh. from D. storten, which has this meaning also.]

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

Sanskrit

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