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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gape

/ˈɡeɪp/ verb, noun

Forms gapes gaping gaped

  1. verb (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
  2. verb (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
  3. verb (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap. “The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.”
  4. verb (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
  5. verb (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
  6. noun (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
  7. noun A large opening.
  8. noun (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
  9. noun The width of an opening.
  10. noun (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.

Synonyms

goggle gawp gawk yawn yaw

Etymology

From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa). Doublet of gap.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To open the mouth wide; as: (a) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. Dryden.
  2. verb To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.
  3. noun The act of gaping; a yawn. Addison.
  4. noun The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc. GAPES; THE GAPES The gapes.

Etymology [OE. gapen, AS. geapan to open; akin to D. gapen to gape, G. gaffen, Icel. & Sw. gapa, Dan. gabe; cf. Skr. jabh to snap at, open the mouth. Cf. Gaby, Gap.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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