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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chinook

/t͡ʃɪˈnuːk/ noun, proper noun

Forms chinooks

  1. noun (Canada, US, physics, meteorology) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains that generally blows from the southwest and can rapidly increase the temperature due to the much warmer air it brings.
  2. noun The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
  3. proper noun A Native American language of the Penutian family of Oregon and Washington.
  4. proper noun Chinook Jargon, a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest composed primarily of words from Chinook proper, English, and French, with some borrowings from other languages.
  5. proper noun A city, the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States.
  6. proper noun The Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
  7. noun A member of a Native American people whose traditional tribal grounds were along the lower and middle Columbia River. “The Chinook sent a hunting party to the south.”

Synonyms

chinook wind snow eater chinook salmon king salmon Chinookan quinnat salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Etymology

Borrowed from Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (“the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia River”).

From Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia river).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls.
  2. noun A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

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