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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knotty

UK /ˈnɒti/ · US /ˈnɑti/ adjective

Forms knottier knottiest

  1. adjective Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
  2. adjective Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly. “a knotty pine”
  3. adjective Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult. “a knotty problem”
  4. adjective Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.

Synonyms

intricate thorny complex complexed complicate complicated convoluted Gordian involute involutional involved labyrinthal labyrinthine manifold baffling elusive problematic problematical tough gnarled gnarly knotted knobbed Byzantine tangled tortuous snarled snarly

Antonyms

simple uncomplicated

Etymology

From Middle English knotti, knotty (“having a knot in it; full of knots; tied together (?); resembling a knot, knotlike; having knobs or protuberances; bulging, convex; of a tree, branch, etc.: full of knots, gnarled; of a plant cutting to be grafted or planted: full of buds or eyes; having joints (?); having swollen joints; of flesh: glandular; of flesh: granular, lumpy, especially, having many swellings; mangy, scurfy (?); having pimples (?); of cauterization: carried out on glandular tissue; (figuratively) of a question or problem: difficult, intricate”) [and other forms], from knotte (“knot; pattern of intersecting lines; coil of a snake”) (from Old English cnotta (“knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gned- (“to bind”)) + -i (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). The English word may be analysed as knot + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).
* Dutch knoestig (“knotty”)
* German knotig (“knotty”)
* Swedish knotig, knutig (“knotty”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
  2. adjective Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.[R.] Rewe.

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

Sanskrit

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