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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weaver

UK /ˈwiː.və(ɹ)/ · US /ˈwi.vɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms weavers

  1. noun A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
  2. noun A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
  3. noun A weaverbird.
  4. noun An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
  5. noun Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
  6. noun Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
  7. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.
  8. proper noun A city in Calhoun County, Alabama.
  9. proper noun A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana.
  11. proper noun An abandoned settlement in Douglas County, Kansas, a victim of frequent flooding.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wabasha County, Minnesota.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
  14. proper noun A river in Cheshire, England.

Synonyms

weaverbird weaver finch

Etymology

From Middle English wevere, wever, from Old English *wefere, *wifre, *wæfre (“weaver”, in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *webārī. By surface analysis, weave + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Weeuwer (“weaver”), Dutch wever (“weaver”), German Low German Wever (“weaver”), German Weber (“weaver”), Swedish vävare (“weaver”), Icelandic vefari (“weaver”).

See weaver.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.
  2. noun A weaver bird.

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

Sanskrit

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

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