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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hive

/haɪv/ noun, verb

Also a form of hives

Forms hives hiving hived

  1. noun (collective) A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
  2. noun The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
  3. noun A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
  4. noun (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
  5. verb (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive. “to hive a swarm of bees”
  6. verb (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
  7. verb (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
  8. verb (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
  9. verb (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
  10. noun An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.

Synonyms

beehive

Etymology

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).
See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve.
The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees. Dryden.
  2. noun The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. Shak.
  3. verb To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.
  4. verb To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.

Etymology [OE. hive, huve, AS. h.]

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

Sanskrit

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