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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peer

UK /pɪə/ · US /pɪɹ/ verb, noun

Forms peers peering peered pire pyre

  1. verb (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
  2. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
  3. noun A look; a glance.
  4. noun Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
  5. noun Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
  6. noun A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners. “a peer of the realm”
  7. noun A comrade; a companion; an associate.
  8. verb To make equal in rank.
  9. verb (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
  10. noun (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

Synonyms

compeer equal match

Etymology

From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear.
The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear.

From Middle English per, pere, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.

pee + -er

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic]
  2. verb To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. Milton.
  3. noun One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
  4. noun A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

Etymology [OF. parir, pareir equiv. to F. paraître to appear, L. parere. Cf. Appear.]

Etymology [OE. per, OF. per, F. pair, fr. L. par equal. Cf. Apparel, Pair, Par, n., Umpire.]

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