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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crick

/kɹɪk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of creek

Forms cricks cricking cricked

  1. noun A painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back, which makes it difficult to move the affected body part for some time; a cramp.
  2. noun A small jackscrew.
  3. verb To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
  4. verb To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
  5. verb To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.
  6. verb (intransitive) To make a sharp, penetrating sound; chirp.
  7. noun The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
  8. proper noun A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5872).
  9. proper noun A small village in Caerwent community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4890).
  10. proper noun A habitational surname derived from the placename.

Synonyms

kink rick wrick Francis Crick Francis Henry Compton Crick

Etymology

From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s. Likely related to Old Norse kriki (“bend; nook”), whence also crick (“creek”) and creek.

Uncertain. Possibly an alteration of creak; or perhaps from Middle English crikken, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, or Proto-West Germanic *krakkjan

See creek.

The Northamptonshire place-name is from Proto-Brythonic *krʉg (“heap, mound”) (itself from Proto-Celtic *krouk-; cf. Welsh crug).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.]
  2. noun A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
  3. noun A small jackscrew. Knight.

Etymology [See Creak.]

Etymology [The same as creek a bending, twisting. See Creek, Crook.]

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