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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

brew

/bɹuː/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms brews brewing brewed

  1. verb (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
  2. verb (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
  3. verb (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
  5. verb (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
  6. verb (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  7. verb (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
  9. noun The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
  10. noun (slang) A serving of beer.
  11. noun (UK, slang) A cup of tea.
  12. noun A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients.
  13. noun (UK, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

contrive plot hatch brewski brewage

Etymology

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.
Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley.

From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.

* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Brugha (“descendant of the farmer”), from brughaire (“farmer”), from brugh (“land”) + -aire.
* As a Manx surname, Anglicized from MacVriw, from breitheamh (“deemster”); see Brain.
* As a German and Alemannic German surname, Americanized from Breu, Breuer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]
  2. verb To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. "She brews good ale." Shak.
  3. verb To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  4. verb To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.

Etymology [OE. brewen, AS. breówan; akin to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. to prepare by heat. sq. root93. Cf. Broth, Bread.]

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