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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folk

UK /fəʊk/ · US /foʊk/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms folks vok volk volge volke Vokes

  1. noun (countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  2. noun (collective plural) People, persons. “There were a lot of folk in the streets.”
  3. noun (collective plural, usually as folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents. “I need to call my folks back home.”
  4. adjective Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  5. adjective Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  6. adjective (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
  7. adjective Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous. “folk psychology; folk linguistics”
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

folks common people tribe family family line kinfolk kinsfolk sept phratry folk music ethnic music

Etymology

From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulk, West Frisian folk, Dutch volk, German Low German and German Volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Faroese and Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk.

* As a German surname, variant of Volk (“people, tribe”).
* As an English surname, variant of Foulk, related to the noun folk, thus cognate with the above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.]
  2. noun People in general, or a separate class of people; --generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks. [Colloq.]

Etymology [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.]

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

Sanskrit

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