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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halloo

/həˈluː/ interjection, noun, verb

Forms halloos hallooes hallooing hallooed haloo

  1. interjection Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
  2. interjection Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.
  3. noun A shout of halloo.
  4. verb (intransitive) To shout halloo.
  5. verb (transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on.
  6. verb (transitive) To chase with shouts or outcries.
  7. verb (transitive) To call or shout to; to hail.
  8. verb (transitive) To shout (something).

Etymology

From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.
  2. verb To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo.
  3. verb To encourage with shouts.
  4. verb To chase with shouts or outcries.

Etymology [Perh. fr. ah + lo; cf. AS. eala, G. halloh, F. haler to set (a dog) on. Cf. Hollo, interj.]

Etymology [OE. halow. See Halloo, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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