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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knoll

UK /nəʊl/ · US /noʊl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms knolls knolling knolled

  1. noun A small mound or rounded hill. “grassy knoll”
  2. noun (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
  3. noun A knell.
  4. verb (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
  6. verb (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
  7. verb To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
  8. proper noun A surname from German

Synonyms

mound hillock hummock hammock

Etymology

From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).

Imitative, or variant of knell.

Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
  2. verb To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing. "Knolled to church." Shak.
  3. verb To sound, as a bell; to knell. Shak.
  4. noun The tolling of a bell; a knell. [R.] Byron.

Etymology [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod, lump, knob, bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw. knöl, Dan. knold.]

Etymology [OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.]

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