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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hoot

/huːt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hoots hooting hooted

  1. noun A derisive cry or shout. “My performance drew hoots of derision from the crowd.”
  2. noun The cry of an owl. “I heard the hoot of an owl. Whoo, whoo!”
  3. noun (slang) A fun event or person. “The party at the weekend was such a hoot! Thanks for the invite.”
  4. noun A small particle; a whit or jot. “We don't care a hoot about what you think.”
  5. verb To cry out or shout in contempt.
  6. verb To make a hoo, the cry of an owl.
  7. verb To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. “Mary felt extremely offended when the workers hooted at her.”
  8. verb To sound the horn of a vehicle. “When you arrive to pick me up, hoot, and I'll come outside.”
  9. noun (New Zealand, slang) Money, especially in the form of cash given as payment.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hooter ace atom thought atomy aught bissel continental bit crumb glimpse dab damn dash diddly glint dot spatter drop dusting boo Bronx cheer hiss raspberry razzing razz snort bird darn red cent

Etymology

From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, assumed to be of North Germanic origin: Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection) (also dialectal Norwegian hut, Bornholm Danish hut, hot), Swedish huta (“to drive someone away (with calls)”), Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Swedish hojta (“to holler”), hojt (“a holler”), further related to Middle High German hiuzen, hūzen (“to call to pursuit”). Swedish hut is the common command to call off and silence barking (hunting) dogs on the pursuit. Compare Swedish veta hut (“know one's place, like a dog”, literally “to know 'hoot' (the command)”).
The Middle High German terms could suggest an earlier Proto-Germanic (hunting dog command?) *hūt- (“to command barking en pursuit?”). Maybe cognate to shout?
Ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse hutututu (“brr”), Norwegian hutra, Swedish huttra, huttla, Danish hudre, Low German hudern, German huttern (“to shiver”).
Further compare English hoy, Dutch hui, Low German hoi, Norwegian hoi, Swedish hoj, Danish hoj, huj (“ho, hallo”).

A variant of utu (influenced by etymology 1), borrowed from Māori utu (“payment, revenge, payback”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cry out or shout in contempt.
  2. verb To make the peculiar cry of an owl. The clamorous owl that nightly hoots. Shak.
  3. verb To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
  4. noun A derisive cry or shout. Glanvill.

Etymology [OE. hoten, houten, huten; cf. OSw. huta, Sw. huta ut to take one up sharply, fr. Sw. hut interj., begone! cf. also W. hwt off! off with it! away! hoot!]

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