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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hutch

/hʌt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hutches hutching hutched

  1. noun A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
  2. noun A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
  3. noun A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
  4. noun A cabinet for storing dishes.
  5. noun A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
  6. noun A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  7. noun (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
  8. noun (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  9. verb (transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  10. verb (mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
  11. verb (ambitransitive) To move with a jerk; to hitch.
  12. proper noun A male given name.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hovel hut shack shanty

Etymology

From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.
(cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
  2. noun A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
  3. noun A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  4. verb To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

Etymology [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.]

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