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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joke

UK /ˈd͡ʒəʊ̯k/ · US /ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯k/ noun, verb

Forms jokes joking joked

  1. noun An amusing story.
  2. noun Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. “It was a joke!”
  3. noun (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. “Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.”
  4. noun (figuratively) Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. “The final exam was a joke.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. “I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking.”
  6. verb (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. “Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.”
  7. verb (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally. “to joke a comrade”

Synonyms

jest sport gag laugh jape jocularity antic prank trick caper put-on

Etymology

From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
  2. noun Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.
  3. verb To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.
  4. verb To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.

Etymology [L. jocus. Cf Jeopardy, Jocular, Juggler.]

Etymology [L. jocari.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “joke” (best matches first).

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