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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knight

/ˈnaɪ̯t/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms knights knighting knighted knyght

  1. noun (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
  2. noun (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
  3. noun (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table”
  4. noun (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
  5. noun (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
  6. noun (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
  7. noun (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
  8. noun (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  9. verb (transitive) To confer knighthood upon. “The king knighted the young squire.”
  10. verb (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
  11. proper noun An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a mounted soldier.
  12. proper noun A town in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
  13. proper noun A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

Synonyms

horse beknight dub

Etymology

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

From Middle English knyghte, from Old English cniht (“youth; servant”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A young servant or follower; a military attendant. [Obs.]
  2. noun A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
  3. verb To dub or create (one) a knight; --done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.

Etymology [OE. knight, cniht, knight, soldier, As. cniht, cneoht, a boy, youth, attendant, military follower; akin to D. & G. knecht servant; perh. akin to E. kin.]

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

Sanskrit

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