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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prowl

/pɹaʊl/ verb, noun

Forms prowls prowling prowled

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. “Watch the lioness prowling in the shrubbery for zebras.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To idle; to go about aimlessly. “That dandy has nothing better to do than prowl around town all day in his pinstripe suit.”
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To collect by plunder. “to prowl money”
  4. noun (colloquial) The act of prowling. “I'm going on a midnight prowl.”

Synonyms

lurch

Etymology

From Middle English prollen, of unknown origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.
  2. verb To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money. [Obs.]
  3. verb To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.
  4. noun The act of prowling. [Colloq.] Smart.

Etymology [OE. prollen to search about; of uncertain origin, perh. for proglen, a dim. of prog to beg, or proke to poke. Cf. Proke.]

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