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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cark

/kɑː(ɹ)k/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms carks carking carked

  1. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
  2. verb (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
  3. verb (archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously.
  4. noun (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
  5. noun (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
  6. proper noun A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).

Synonyms

perturb unhinge disquiet trouble distract disorder

Etymology

From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k.
The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.

From Middle English cark, kark (“worry”), from Old English carc (“sorrow, worry”).

From caulk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.]
  2. verb To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] Beau. & fl.
  3. verb To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.]

Etymology [OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge; cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See Charge, and cf. Cargo.]

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