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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coop

UK /kuːp/ · US /kup/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of co-op

Forms coops cooping cooped coup

  1. noun A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
  2. noun A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
  3. noun (figuratively, slang) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
  4. noun (obsolete) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
  5. noun An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.
  6. verb (transitive) To keep in a coop.
  7. verb (transitive) To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  8. verb (transitive, intransitive, politics, historical) To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
  9. verb (intransitive, law enforcement, slang) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
  11. noun (regional, England, Scotland) A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
  12. noun (regional, England, Scotland) A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
  13. noun (Scotland) A small heap.
  14. noun (uncommon) Dated spelling of co-op.
  15. proper noun A surname.
  16. proper noun A male given name.

Synonyms

chicken coop hencoop henhouse cage

Etymology

From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.

Possibly from coop, above. Sense 2 may be from English coup (“to tilt, overturn, upset”).

Uncertain; compare English cop (“top, summit (especially of a hill); head”).

From cooperative, by shortening.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson.
  2. noun An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
  3. verb To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; --usually followed by up, sometimes by in. The Trojans coopet within their walls so long. Dryden.
  4. verb To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . .

Etymology [Cf. AS. cypa a measure, D. kuip tub, Icel. kupa bowl, G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See Cup, and cf. Keeve.]

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