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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broody

/ˈbɹuːdi/ adjective, noun

Forms broodier broodiest broodies

  1. adjective Of birds: sitting persistently and protectively on a nest, in order to hatch eggs. “a broody hen”
  2. adjective Of any creature or person: showing an interest in raising young.
  3. adjective Brooding, dwelling upon one's thoughts; moody.
  4. adjective Gloomy.
  5. noun A female bird in the condition to incubate eggs; a broody hen, duck, etc. “There are six broodies in that coop.”

Synonyms

clucky brood hen broody hen setting hen sitter brooding contemplative meditative musing pensive pondering reflective ruminative

Etymology

From Middle English *brody, *brodi, from Old English brōdiġ (“broody”), equivalent to brood + -y. Cognate with German brütig (“broody”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inclined to brood. Ray.

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