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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bun

/bʌn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms buns bunning bunned bunn p'un pun

  1. noun A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
  2. noun A bread roll that is served with a savoury filling such as a hamburger or hot dog.
  3. noun (Northern England, especially Northumbria) Any bread roll.
  4. noun (Northern England, Ireland) A cupcake.
  5. noun A roll of hair worn at the back of the head. “loose bun;   messy bun;   tight bun”
  6. noun (UK, slang) A drunken spree.
  7. noun (Internet slang) A newbie.
  8. noun (slang) A young girl or woman.
  9. verb (transitive) To form (the hair) into a bun.
  10. noun (dialect, archaic, nonclipped) A bunny: a rabbit.
  11. noun (dialect, archaic) A squirrel.
  12. noun (dialect, archaic) The scut or tail of a hare.
  13. noun (dialect, archaic) A dry stalk.
  14. verb (Caribbean, MLE and MTE, slang) To smoke cannabis.
  15. verb (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang) To shoot.
  16. verb (MLE, slang) To forget.
  17. noun (Caribbean and MLE, slang) marijuana cigarette, joint
  18. noun A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.
  19. proper noun A surname from Khmer.

Synonyms

hair bun chignon cock-up bun-bun roll

Etymology

From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive of *bungu (“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.

Probably from Scots bun (“tail of a rabbit or hare”), which is probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”).

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (fèn, “fen”). Doublet of fen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

Etymology [Scot. bun, bunn, OE. bunne, bonne; fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. bunna, Gael. bonnach, or OF. bugne tumor, Prov. F. bugne a kind of pancake; akin to OHG. bungo bulb, MHG. bunge, Prov. E. bung heap, cluster, bunny a small swelling.]

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