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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tat

/tæt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tats tatting tatted tattoo tatt Tati

  1. noun (uncountable, UK) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
  2. noun (uncountable, UK) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets. “tourist tat”
  3. noun (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.
  5. noun (India, archaic) A pony.
  6. noun (slang) A tattoo.
  7. verb (slang, transitive) To apply a tattoo.
  8. noun Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.
  9. noun A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.
  10. proper noun A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.

Synonyms

Caucasian Persian cheapness tackiness sleaze Thematic Apperception Test intertwine

Etymology

From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).

Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”).

Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute. [India]
  2. noun A pony. [India]

Etymology [Hind. tat.]

Etymology [Hind. tatt.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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