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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gripe

/ɡɹaɪp/ verb, noun

Also a form of grip

Forms gripes griping griped grope gripen

  1. verb (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
  2. verb (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother. “What's griping you?”
  3. verb (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
  4. verb (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
  5. verb (intransitive, now archaic except in passive) To suffer griping pains.
  6. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
  7. verb (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
  8. noun A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
  9. noun (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
  10. noun (obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
  11. noun (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
  12. noun (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  13. noun (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress. “the gripe of poverty”
  14. noun (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

Synonyms

bitch complain whine whinge kick beef squawk grouse crab bellyache holler

Etymology

From Middle English gripen, from Old English grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreyb- (“to grab, grasp”). Cognate with West Frisian gripe, Low German griepen, Dutch grijpen, German greifen, Danish gribe, Norwegian Bokmål gripe, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gripa, Icelandic grípa. See also grip, grope.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A vulture; the griffin. [Obs.]
  2. verb To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
  3. verb To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
  4. verb To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.

Etymology [See Grype.]

Etymology [AS. gripan; akin to D. grijpen, G. greifen, OHG. gr, Icel. gripa, Sw. gripe, Dan. gribe, Goth. greipan; cf. Lith. graibyti, Russ. grabite to plunder, Skr. grah, grabh, to seize. Cf. Grip, v. t., Grope.]

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

Sanskrit

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