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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homer

UK /ˈhəʊmə/ · US /ˈhoʊmɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms homers homering homered chomer

  1. noun (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.
  2. noun (historical units of measure) Synonym of cor: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure.
  3. noun (US, baseball) A home run. “The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.”
  4. noun (US, colloquial) Synonym of home run (“sexual intercourse”).
  5. noun (US) A homing pigeon. “Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.”
  6. noun (US, sports) A person who is extremely devoted to a favorite team. “Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.”
  7. noun A homing beacon.
  8. noun (UK) homework
  9. verb (US, baseball) To hit a homer; to hit a home run. “The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.”
  10. proper noun An ancient Greek epic poet of the 8th century BCE, who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  11. proper noun A male given name from Ancient Greek. “What’s this? “Extremely High Voltage”. Well, I don’t need safety gloves because I’m Homer Simp-*gets zapped to death*”
  12. proper noun A town, the county seat of Banks County, Georgia, United States.
  13. proper noun A town, the parish seat of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
  14. proper noun A number of townships in the United States, listed under Homer Township.
  15. proper noun A surname from Middle English.

Synonyms

cor kor home run hit out of the park jack Winslow Homer homing pigeon

Etymology

From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).

From home + -er.

From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).

From Middle English [Term?], an occupational name for a helmet maker, or a variant of Holme.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
  2. noun See Hoemother.
  3. noun A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]

Etymology [Heb. khomer.]

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