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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champ

/t͡ʃæmp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms champs champing champed champe Champy Champie Champee

  1. noun (informal) Buddy, sport, mate. (as a term of address) “Whatcha doing, champ?”
  2. verb (informal) To act or behave like a champ; to endure. [with it or up]
  3. noun (Ireland) A dish comprising mashed potato and chopped scallions.
  4. verb (ambitransitive) To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
  5. noun (informal) Champagne.
  6. noun (architecture, obsolete or rare) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
  7. noun (heraldry, obsolete or rare) The field of a shield.
  8. verb (heraldry) To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background). [with with]
  9. verb To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.
  10. proper noun (cryptozoology) A large aquatic creature, similar to the Loch Ness monster, which supposedly lives in Lake Champlain, located on the shared borders of the American states of Vermont and New York and the Canadian province of Quebec.

Synonyms

poundies champion title-holder chomp

Etymology

From Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash the teeth”), perhaps originally imitative.

From champagne by shortening.

Borrowed from French champ m (“field”). Doublet of campus and camp.

Blend of church + camp or back-formation from champing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.
  2. verb To bite into small pieces; to crunch. Steele.
  3. verb To bite or chew impatiently.
  4. noun The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

Etymology [Prob, of Scand. orgin; cf. dial. Sw. kämsa to chew with difficulty, champ; but cf. also OF. champier, champeyer, champoyer, to graze in fields, fr. F. champ field, fr. L. campus. Cf. Camp.]

Etymology [F. champ, L. campus field.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “champ” (best matches first).