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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quoit

/kɔɪt/ noun, verb

Forms quoits quoiting quoited

  1. noun A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
  2. noun A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
  3. noun The flat stone covering a cromlech.
  4. noun An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
  5. noun The discus used in ancient sports.
  6. verb (intransitive) To play quoits.
  7. verb (transitive) To throw like a quoit.

Synonyms

fling toss bung cast chuck chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurl hurtle launch lob peck

Etymology

From Middle English coyte (“flat stone”), from Old French coite, from Latin culcita. Doublet of quilt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A game played with quoits. Shak.
  2. noun The discus of the ancients. See Discus.
  3. verb To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
  4. verb To throw; to pitch. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. coite; cf. OF. coitier to spur, press, (assumed) LL. coctare, fr. L. coquere, coctum, to cook, burn, vex, harass, E. cook, also W. coete a quoit.]

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