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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concoct

/kənˈkɒkt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms concocts concocting concocted

  1. verb To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking. “to concoct a potion”
  2. verb (figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity. “to concoct a cunning plan”
  3. verb (obsolete) To digest.
  4. noun (rare, nonstandard) A concoction.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Digested or affected by heat.

Synonyms

prepare mix contrive plot scheme ferment brew cook up trump up think up think of dream up hatch

Etymology

From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).

Borrowed from Latin concoctus, perfect passive participle of Latin concoquō (compare Etymology 1).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
  2. verb To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] Thomson.

Etymology [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See Cook.]

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