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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jag

/d͡ʒæɡ/ noun, verb

Forms jags jagging jagged

  1. noun A sharp projection.
  2. noun A part broken off; a fragment.
  3. noun A flap, a tear in a clothing
  4. noun (botany) A cleft or division.
  5. noun (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
  6. noun (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
  7. verb To cut unevenly.
  8. verb (Scotland, Northern England, Western Pennsylvania) To pierce with a sharp object.
  9. verb (Western Pennsylvania) To tease.
  10. noun Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
  11. noun A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
  12. noun A fit, spell, outburst.
  13. noun A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
  14. noun (Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
  15. noun (informal) A Jaguar car.

Synonyms

dag

Etymology

The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam, rag and Middle English dag, of which jag may be a palatalised variant.
The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.

Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.

Shortening of Jaguar.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
  2. noun A part broken off; a fragment. Bp. Hacket.
  3. verb To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
  4. noun A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] [Written also jagg.] Forby.

Etymology [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. gag aperture, cleft, chink; akin to Ir. & Gael. gag.]

Etymology [Scot. jag, jaug, a leather bag or wallet, a pocket. Cf. Jag a notch.]

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