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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near

/nɪə/ adjective, adverb, preposition, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms nearer nearest nears nearing neared neer niere neire

  1. adjective Physically close. “I can't see near objects very clearly without my glasses.”
  2. adjective Close in time. “The end is near.”
  3. adjective Closely connected or related. “The deceased man had no near relatives.”
  4. adjective Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear. “It is a matter of near consequence to me.”
  5. adjective Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling. “a version near to the original”
  6. adjective So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow. “a near escape”
  7. adjective Approximate, almost. “The two words are near synonyms.”
  8. adjective (UK, in relation to a vehicle) On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left). “The near front wheel came loose.”
  9. adverb At or towards a position close in space or time.
  10. adverb Nearly; almost. “He was near unconscious when I found him.”
  11. preposition Physically close to, in close proximity to. “There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun.”
  12. preposition Close to in time. “The voyage was near completion.”
  13. preposition Close to in nature or degree. “His opinions are near the limit of what is acceptable.”
  14. verb (ambitransitive) To come closer to; to approach. “The ship nears the land.”
  15. noun The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.
  16. noun (dialectal, rare, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire) Kidney.
  17. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

close nigh quasi- around the corner citerior close by immediate nearby present propinquitous proximate near side approach come on go up draw near draw close come near cheeseparing penny-pinching skinny dear good approximate about almost most nearly virtually well-nigh

Antonyms

remote off far distant far from off side

Etymology

From Middle English nere, ner, from Old English nēar (“nearer”, comparative of nēah (“nigh”), the superlative would become next), influenced by Old Norse nær (“near”), both originating from Proto-Germanic *nēhwiz (“nearer”), comparative of the adverb *nēhw (“near”), from the adjective *nēhwaz, ultimately from Pre-Proto-Germanic *h₂nḗḱwos, a lengthened-grade adjective derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).
Cognate with North Frisian nai, noi, näi (“close, near”), Saterland Frisian nai (“close, near”), Dutch na (“close”), naar (“to, towards”), Dutch Low Saxon nao (“after”), German nach (“after”), nahe (“near”), näher (“nearer”), German Low German nao, nå (“towards”), Luxembourgish no (“after”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk nær (“close, near”), Swedish när, nära (“close, near”), Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐍈 (nēƕ, “close, near”). See also nigh.
Near appears to be derived from (or at the very least influenced by) the North Germanic languages; as opposed to nigh, which continues the inherited West Germanic adjective. Both, however, are ultimately derived from the same Proto-Germanic root: *nēhw (“near, close”).

From Middle English nēre, neere (“kidney, abdomen; (pl.) seat of emotions”), probably from unattested Old English *nēora, *nīora, from Proto-West Germanic *neurō, from Proto-Germanic *neurô; but alternatively borrowed from Middle Low German nêre. Cognate with Scots nere, neir, German Niere, Dutch nier, Norwegian nyre, Icelandic nýra, and more distantly Latin nefronēs pl (Praeneste dialect), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós), all meaning both “kidney” and “testicle”.
In most English dialects, this word survived only as a fossil in the second syllable of kidney (earlier kide-nēre), wherein the original r was apparently replaced with y.

Scottish surname, probably shortened/altered from McNair.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh.
  2. adverb Nearly; almost; well-nigh. "Near twenty years ago." Shak. "Near a fortnight ago." Addison.
  3. adjective Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh. "As one near death." Shak.
  4. adjective Closely connected or related.

Etymology [AS. neár, compar. of neáh nigh. See Nigh.]

Etymology [See Near, adv.]

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

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