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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cobble

UK /ˈkɒb.əl/ · US /ˈkɑ.bəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cobbles cobbling cobbled

  1. noun A cobblestone.
  2. noun (geology) A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  3. noun (manufacturing) A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling.
  4. verb (intransitive) To make shoes (what a cobbler does).
  5. verb (transitive) To assemble in an improvised way. “I cobbled something together to get us through till morning.”
  6. verb (transitive, intransitive) To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

cobblestone sett

Etymology

From Middle English cobill, kobill (used in various combinations with ston, stan (“stone”), note, nutt (“nut”), etc.), probably a diminutive of Middle English *cob, *cobb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kubb- (“lump; round object”). Equivalent to cob + -le.
Cognate to North Germanic kubb-, kobb- (“round object, bulge, heap, islet, seal, bowler hat, etc”).

See coble.

* As an English surname, variant of Coble.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Kobel.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fishing boat. See Coble.
  2. noun A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.
  3. noun pl.
  4. verb To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.

Etymology [From Cob a lump. See Cob, n., 9, and cf. Copple, Copplestone.]

Etymology [OF. cobler, copler, to join or knit together, couple, F. coupler, L. copulare to couple, join. Cf. Couple, n. & v. t.]

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