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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dank

/ˈdeɪ̯ŋk/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms danker dankest danks danking danked danek

  1. adjective Dark, damp and humid. “The dank cave was chilly and spooky.”
  2. adjective (figuratively, of marijuana) Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent. “That was dank bud.”
  3. adjective (Internet slang, often ironic) Great, awesome.
  4. adjective (originally 4chan slang) Expounding right-wing views in a cool way; based.
  5. noun Moisture; humidity; water.
  6. noun Dankness; a dark, moist and usually unpleasant atmosphere.
  7. noun (slang) Strong, high-quality cannabis.
  8. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.
  9. noun (historical) A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

Synonyms

clammy

Etymology

From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”).
Modern slang senses derived from the drug sense; compare based (“awesome, especially in a right-wing context online”) from drug terminology freebased.

From Middle English danken, from the adjective (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Damp; moist; humid; wet. Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire. Milton.
  2. noun Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
  3. noun A small silver coin current in Persia.

Etymology [Cf. dial, Sw. dank a moist place in a field, Icel. dökk pit, pool; possibly akin to E. damp or to daggle dew.]

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