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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hurry

/ˈhʌ.ɹi/ noun, verb

Forms hurries hurrying hurried

  1. noun A rushed action. “Why are you in such a big hurry?”
  2. noun An urgency. “There is no hurry on that paperwork.”
  3. noun (American football) An incidence of a defensive pressure that forces the quarterback to throw the ball earlier than intended or rush their decision, often leading to an incomplete pass or failed play.
  4. noun (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
  5. verb (intransitive) To do things quickly. “He's hurrying because he's late.”
  6. verb (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. “If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.”
  7. verb (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
  8. verb (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
  9. verb (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
  10. verb (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.

Synonyms

haste hastiness hurriedness precipitation rush rushing travel rapidly speed zip hasten look sharp festinate

Etymology

From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare Latin currō (“to run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwarsär (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.
Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South.
  2. verb To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
  3. verb To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry. To hurry up, to make haste.
  4. noun The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

Etymology [OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all prob. of imitative origin.]

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

Sanskrit

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