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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crake

/ˈkɹeɪk/ noun, verb

Forms crakes craking craked

  1. noun Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
  2. verb To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
  3. verb (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
  4. noun (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

Etymology

From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.

From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
  2. verb To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]
  3. noun A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. noun Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; --so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

Etymology [See Crack.]

Etymology [Cf. Icel. kr crow, kr raven, Sw. kr, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.]

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