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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pinky

/ˈpɪŋki/ adjective, noun

Also a form of pinkie

Forms pinkier pinkiest pinkies pinkie

  1. adjective Pinkish.
  2. noun (uncountable, historical, slang, Australia) Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
  3. noun A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
  4. noun (offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
  5. noun (Australia, informal) The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
  6. noun (historical) A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
  7. noun (US, Canada, Scotland, Australia, informal) The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
  8. adjective winking

Synonyms

abelungu ang moh Angrez balanda béké bule cac Caucasian cornstarch crusader cracker cumskin Eurangutan European farang firangi gringo gora gussuk gweilo haole little finger pinkie

Etymology

From Dutch pinkje, diminutive of Dutch pink (“little finger”). Cognate with West Frisian pinke (“pinky”), dialectal English pink (“something small or tiny”), and perhaps to Old English pinca (“a point”). Compare also German Low German Pink (“penis”), English pintle (“penis”).

From pink + -y, from pink (“to wink”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See 1st Pink.

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