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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chive

/t͡ʃaɪv/ noun, verb

Also a form of chives

Forms chives chiving chived cive chithe chire chieve chife chiv

  1. noun A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
  2. noun (in the plural or attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb. “Chive herb. (attributive use)”
  3. noun (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion.
  4. noun A piece cut off; sliver.
  5. noun (botany, obsolete) The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen, especially of saffron.
  6. noun (thieves' cant) A knife.
  7. noun (thieves' cant) A file.
  8. noun (thieves' cant) A saw.
  9. verb (thieves' cant) To stab.
  10. verb (thieves' cant) To cut.

Synonyms

jab shiv chef chib ching enthrill foin gore gride job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach run through shank spear chives cive schnittlaugh Allium schoenoprasum

Etymology

From Middle English chive~cyve, from Old French chive~cive, from Latin cēpa (“onion”).

From Middle English chive, chyve, variant of chith, chyth, from Old English ċīþ (“shoot, scion, sprout”). Doublet of chit and scion.

From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A filament of a stamen. [Obs.]
  2. noun A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion.

Etymology [F. cive, fr. L. cepa, caepa, onion. Cf. Cives, Cibol.]

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