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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hone

UK /həʊn/ · US /hoʊn/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms hones honing honed

  1. noun A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
  2. noun A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
  3. verb (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
  4. verb (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
  5. verb (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
  6. verb To make more acute, intense, or effective.
  7. noun A kind of swelling in the cheek.
  8. verb (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
  9. verb (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
  10. interjection Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

alas Used to express sorrow or grief perfect

Etymology

From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)).

Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot.

French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pine; to lament; to long. Lamb.
  2. noun A kind of swelling in the cheek.
  3. noun A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser.
  4. verb To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

Etymology [Etymology uncertain. sq. root37.]

Etymology [Cf. Icel. h a knob.]

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