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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yap

/jæp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms yaps yapping yapped

  1. noun (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
  2. noun (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
  3. noun (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech. “Shut your yap!”
  4. noun (countable, Geordie) A badly behaved person, especially a child.
  5. noun (dated, slang) A fool.
  6. verb (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
  7. verb (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter. “You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.”
  8. verb (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
  9. proper noun An island of the Caroline Islands, western Micronesia.
  10. proper noun One of the four states that composes the Federated States of Micronesia.
  11. proper noun A Chinese surname from Hokkien or Hakka.

Synonyms

trap cakehole hole maw gob yelp yip

Etymology

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”). More at yelp.

From Hokkien 葉 /叶 (Ia̍p) and Hakka 葉 /叶 (Ya̍p).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bark; to yelp. L'Estrange.
  2. noun A bark; a yelp.

Etymology [Icel. gjalpa; akin to yelp. Cf. Yaup.]

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