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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hawker

UK /ˈhɔːkə/ · US /ˈhɔkɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms hawkers

  1. noun A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
  2. noun Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
  3. noun (Singapore) A seller of food in a hawker centre.
  4. noun Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
  5. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
  6. proper noun A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Charles Hawker.
  7. proper noun A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia, named after George Charles Hawker.

Synonyms

peddler pedlar packman pitchman falconer

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Low German or Dutch, from Middle Low German hoker and ultimately from the root of huckster.

Inherited from Middle English hawkere, from Old English hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
  2. verb To sell goods by outcry in the street. [Obs.] Hudibras.
  3. noun A falconer.

Etymology [Cf. AS. hafecere. See 1st Hawk.]

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

Sanskrit

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