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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thrall

/θɹɔːl/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms thralls thralling thralled

  1. noun (literary, otherwise archaic) Slave; one under the control of another. “My father was always a thrall to alcohol.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person. “Today's kids are in thrall to their phones.”
  3. noun A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
  4. adjective (archaic) Enthralled; captive.
  5. verb (literary, otherwise archaic) To make a thrall; enslave.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

grasp bondage slavery thralldom thraldom

Etymology

From Middle English thral, thralle, threl, threlle, from Old English þrǣl (“thrall, slave, servant”), from Old Norse þræll (“slave”), from Proto-Germanic *þrahilaz, *þragilaz, *þrigilaz (“runner, gofer, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, drag, race, run”), possibly a variant of *dʰregʰ- (“to run”); related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan), Old English þrǣġan (“to run”).

From Middle English thrallen, from the noun above. Compare Old Norse þræla.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A slave; a bondman. Chaucer.
  2. noun Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. Tennyson.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. verb To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.

Etymology [OE. thral, , Icel. , perhaps through AS. ; akin to Sw. träl, Dan. træl, and probably to AS. to run, Goth. , Gr. dregil, drigil, a servant.]

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