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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wicker

UK /ˈwɪkəː/ · US /ˈwɪkɚ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of wick

Forms wickers

  1. noun A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
  2. noun Wickerwork. “wicker basket   wicker chair  wicker cradle”
  3. adjective Made of wickerwork.
  4. proper noun A surname.
  5. proper noun A ghost town in Brazos County, Texas, United States, recorded by the USGS as a populated place.

Synonyms

wick wickerwork caning

Etymology

From Middle English wiker, cognate with Old Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
  2. noun Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
  3. adjective Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.

Etymology [OE. wiker, wikir, osier, probably akin to AS. wican to give way. Cf. Weak.]

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

Sanskrit

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