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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sweet

UK /swiːt/ · US /swit/ adjective, interjection, adverb, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sweeter sweetest sweets sweeting sweeted sweete

  1. adjective Tasting of sugars. “a sweet apple”
  2. adjective (wine) Retaining a portion of sugar. “Sweet wines are better dessert wines.”
  3. adjective Not of a salty taste. “sweet butter”
  4. adjective Having a pleasant smell; fragrant. “a sweet scent”
  5. adjective Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale. “sweet milk”
  6. adjective Of a pleasant sound. “a sweet tune”
  7. adjective Of a pleasing disposition. “a sweet child”
  8. adjective Of a helpful disposition. “It was sweet of him to help out.”
  9. interjection Used as a positive response to good news or information. “They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!”
  10. adverb In a pleasant manner.
  11. noun (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
  12. noun (countable, especially UK, India) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
  13. noun (countable, especially UK) A food eaten for dessert. “Can we see the sweet menu, please?”
  14. noun Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection. “Good evening, my sweet.”
  15. noun (obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
  16. noun (obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
  17. verb (archaic or poetic) To sweeten.
  18. proper noun A surname.
  19. proper noun A female given name.
  20. proper noun An unincorporated community in Gem County, Idaho, United States.

Synonyms

saccharine sugary fresh unsalty fragrant odoriferous odorous perfumed scented sweet-scented sweet-smelling unfermented wholesome dulcet honeyed mellifluous mellisonant cute lovable pleasant Henry Sweet dessert afters confection sweetness sugariness angelic angelical cherubic seraphic

Antonyms

bitter sour salty nonsweet sugarless unsugared unsweetened unsweet dry decaying fermented rancid

Etymology

From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us.
Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”), Bavarian siaß (“sweet; cute”), Central Franconian söß (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German süss, süß (“sweet; cute”), Limburgish söüt (“sweet; cute”), Low German seut, sööt (“sweet”), Luxembourgish séiss (“sweet”), Vilamovian ziss (“sweet”), Yiddish זיס (zis, “sweet; cute”), Danish sød (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Faroese søtur (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk søt (“sweet; cute”), Swedish söt (“sweet; cute”); also Latin suāvis (“delicious, pleasant, sweet”), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet; pleasant; glad, pleased”), Albanian shije (“flavour, taste”), Lithuanian sūdyti (“to add salt; to brine, souse”), Armenian քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr, “sweet”), Tocharian A swār (“sweet”), Tocharian B swāre (“sweet, tender”), Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú, “delicious, palatable, savoury, sweet, tasty; dainty, delicate”). Doublet of suave.

* As an English surname, from the adjective sweet.
* As a German and Jewish surname, translated from Suess, from süß (“sweet”).
* As a French surname, translated from Ledoux.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; --opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
  2. adjective Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
  3. noun That which is sweet to the taste; --used chiefly in the plural.
  4. noun That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. "A wilderness of sweets." Milton.

Etymology [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. swete; akin to OFries. swete, OS. swoti, D. zoet, G. süss, OHG. suozi, Icel. sætr, soetr, Sw. söt, Dan. söd, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. *175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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