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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croak

UK /kɹəʊk/ · US /kɹoʊk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms croaks croaking croaked

  1. noun A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  2. noun The call of a frog or toad.
  3. noun The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
  4. verb (intransitive) To make a croak sound.
  5. verb (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  6. verb (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its vocal sound.
  7. verb (intransitive, slang) To die.
  8. verb (transitive, slang) To kill. “He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.”
  9. verb To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
  10. verb (programming slang, Perl) To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.
  11. proper noun A surname from Irish.

Synonyms

ribbit croaking die decease perish go exit pass away expire pass kick the bucket cash in one's chips buy the farm conk give-up the ghost drop dead pop off choke snuff it cronk murmur mutter grumble gnarl

Etymology

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.
See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.

Variant of Croke.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
  2. verb To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
  3. verb To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.
  4. noun The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

Etymology [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr to croak, and to E. creak, crake.]

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

Sanskrit

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