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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cluck

/klʌk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms clucks clucking clucked clutch clock

  1. noun The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
  2. noun Any sound similar to this.
  3. noun A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
  4. noun (Texas) A setting hen.
  5. verb (intransitive) To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens).
  6. verb (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound. “My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.”
  7. verb To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
  8. verb (UK, drug slang) To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

chuck clucking click clack

Etymology

From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin.
Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).

* As a German surname, Americanized from Kluck.
* As a Polish and Czech surname, Americanized from Kluk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray.
  2. verb To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
  3. noun The call of a hen to her chickens.
  4. noun A click. See 3d Click, 2.

Etymology [AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken, G. glucken, glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative origin.]

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