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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nook

/nʊk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms nooks nooking nooked nuke

  1. noun A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove. “There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.”
  2. noun A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat. “The back of the used book shop was one of her favorite nooks; she could read for hours and no one would bother her or pester her to buy.”
  3. noun A recess, cove or hollow.
  4. noun (historical) An English unit of land area, originally ¹⁄₄ of a yardland but later 12+¹⁄₂ or 20 acres.
  5. noun (chiefly Northern England, archaic) A corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land.
  6. noun (Homestuck fandom slang, vulgar) The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.
  7. verb To withdraw into a nook.
  8. verb To situate in a nook.
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.

Synonyms

alcove ancona recess niche fardel corner

Etymology

From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English hnoc, hnocc (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Germanic *hnukkaz, *hnukkô (“a bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to turn, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to pinch, press, bend”).
If so, then also related to Scots nok (“small hook”), Norwegian dialectal nok, nokke (“hook, angle, bent object”), Danish nok (“hook”), Swedish nock (“ridge”), Faroese nokki (“crook”), Icelandic hnokki (“hook”), Dutch nok (“ridge”) or Dutch hoek (“corner”), Low German Nocke (“tip”), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch”), Old English ġehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled”). Also cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.

Etymology [OE. nok; cf. Gael. & Ir. niuc.]

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