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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drake

/ˈdɹeɪ̯k/ noun, proper noun

Forms drakes

  1. noun A male duck (bird).
  2. noun (poetic) dragon
  3. noun (fantasy, not universal) lesser draconic creature
  4. noun beaked galley, or Viking warship
  5. noun (historical) small piece of artillery
  6. noun a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)
  7. noun (archaic) mayfly
  8. noun a mayfly used as fishing bait
  9. proper noun An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
  10. proper noun Francis Drake (1540-1596), English sea captain, pirate, and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
  11. proper noun An Irish surname, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake.
  12. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  13. proper noun A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  14. proper noun A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  15. proper noun A ward of Plymouth, Devon, England; named for aqueduct Drake's Leat, itself for Francis Drake, Mayor of Plymouth at the time of its construction.
  16. proper noun A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake.

Synonyms

dragon dragonship drakefly Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake

Etymology

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), either from Old English *draca, *andraca (“male duck, drake”) or from Middle Low German drâke, andrâke, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“drake”, literally “duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun drake meaning "male duck" and "dragon."
* As a German surname, from Low German drake (“dragon”), related to the above.
* As a Dutch surname, Americanized/West Flemish variant of Draak, also related to the above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The male of the duck kind.
  2. noun The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton.
  3. noun A dragon. [Obs.]
  4. noun A small piece of artillery. [Obs.]

Etymology [Akin to LG. drake, OHG. antrache, anetrecho, G. enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc., and fr. AS. ened, fem., duck; akin to D. eend, G. ente, Icel. önd, Dan. and, Sw. and, Lith. antis, L. anas, Gr. ati a water fowl. rich. Cf. Gulaund.]

Etymology [AS. draca dragon, L. draco. See Dragon.]

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

Sanskrit

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