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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crag

/ˈkɹæɡ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of craw

Forms crags craig

  1. noun (Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
  2. noun A rough, broken fragment of rock.
  3. noun (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
  4. noun (uncountable) A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.
  5. noun (dialectal or obsolete) The neck or throat.
  6. proper noun (dice games) A dice game similar to Yahtzee.

Etymology

From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).

A variant of craw.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
  2. noun A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
  3. noun The neck or throat [Obs.]
  4. noun The neck piece or scrag of mutton. Johnson.

Etymology [W. craig; akin to Gael. creag, Corn. karak, Armor. karrek.]

Etymology [A form of craw: cf. D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen. See Craw.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “crag” (best matches first).