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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congee

UK /ˈkɒndʒi/ · US /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/ noun, verb

Forms congees congeeing congeed conge conjee

  1. noun Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
  2. noun (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
  3. noun (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
  4. noun (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
  5. noun (obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
  6. noun (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
  8. verb (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
  9. verb (archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
  10. verb (archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
  11. noun (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

Synonyms

rice porridge rice congee porridge zhou jook juk conge

Etymology

From late Middle English congie, from Old French congié, congiet (modern French congé), from Latin commeātus (“passage, permission to leave”), from commeō (“to go and come”), from con- + meō (“to go, to pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.

From Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci) or another Dravidian language such as Malayalam കഞ്ഞി (kaññi) (ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *kañci), possibly via Portuguese canje.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Congé, Conge. [Obs.]
  2. noun [Tamil kashi boilings.]
  3. noun Boiled rice; rice gruel. [India]

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