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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curvet

UK /kɜːˈvɛt/ · US /kɚˈvɛt/ verb, noun

Forms curvets curvetting curveting curvetted curveted

  1. verb (intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump.
  3. verb (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.
  4. verb (figuratively) (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.
  5. verb (figuratively) (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.
  6. noun A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once.
  7. noun A prank; a frolic.

Synonyms

vaulting

Etymology

From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva (“curve”), from Latin curva, feminine of curvus (“bent, curved”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
  2. noun A prank; a frolic.
  3. verb To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. 'Oft and high he did curvet." Drayton.
  4. verb To leap and frisk; to frolic. Shak.

Etymology [OE. corvet, It.corvetta: cf. F. courbette. See Curve, and cf. Corvetto.]

Etymology [Cf. It. corvettare. See Curvet, n.]

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