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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buddy

/ˈbʌdi/ noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms buddies buddying buddied Buddie

  1. noun A friend or casual acquaintance. “They have been buddies since they were in school.”
  2. noun A partner for a particular activity. “drinking buddies”
  3. noun A workmate assigned to work closely with another. “training buddies [mentor/mentee]”
  4. noun An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know. “Hey, buddy, I think you dropped this.”
  5. pronoun (Maritime English) A person far removed from the conversation. “I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.”
  6. verb (transitive) To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
  7. adjective Resembling a bud.
  8. proper noun A male nickname.
  9. proper noun (rare, chiefly US) A male given name from English.
  10. proper noun A given name for a dog.

Synonyms

bud butty mate babber billy bredrin bruv buddo chaver china chuck chum cock cocker cobber compadre comrade companion cove crony brother pal sidekick

Etymology

First appears c. 1788, in the writings of Charles Dibdin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from *bruddy, *bruthy, a child-talk alteration of brother. Alternatively, perhaps from British colloquial butty (“companion”), also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coal mining. Itself believed derived from 1530 as booty fellow, a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. Alternatively, compare Scots buddo, bodda (“buddy, kiddo, dear”), related to Icelandic budda (“purse"; also "short, stout person”).

From Middle English buddy, buddi, equivalent to bud + -y.

From buddy.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “buddy”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details