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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hemlock

/ˈhɛmˌlɒk/ noun, proper noun

Forms hemlocks

  1. noun Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
  2. noun Cicuta (water hemlock).
  3. noun Poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
  4. noun Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.
  5. proper noun An unincorporated community in Taylor Township, Howard County, Indiana.
  6. proper noun A census-designated place in Richland Township, Saginaw County, Michigan.
  7. proper noun A census-designated place in the town of Livonia, Livingston County, New York.
  8. proper noun A village in Perry County, Ohio.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon.
  10. proper noun A township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
  12. proper noun Synonym of Stabler, Skamania County, Washington.

Synonyms

beaver poison cowbane musquash root poison parsnip spotted cowbane water hemlock devil's bread devil's porridge herb bennet poison hemlock poison parsley Conium maculatum Conium chaerophylloides Stabler Skamania County Washington California fern Nebraska fern winter fern hemlock tree

Etymology

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hemlīc, hymlīc m and hymlīce f (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”), of uncertain origin.
Compare Old English hymele (“hop-vine, hops”), Old English humele (“bryony, widerton, hair moss, gold-hair, morning glory”), Danish and Swedish humle (“hops”), Icelandic humall (“hops”). Perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *háwHmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwHmas from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (“to press out, extract”).
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *haumala) Ossetian хумӕллӕг (xumællæg, “hops”)
* (from Sarmato-Scythian *hauma) Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma), Baluchi [script needed] (hum), Persian هوم (hôm))
* (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma) Sanskrit सोम (soma))

All places are presumably named after the North American tree, which is non-poisonous.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
  2. noun An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.

Etymology [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.]

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