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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reek

/riːk/ noun, verb

Forms reeks reeking reeked

  1. noun A strong unpleasant smell.
  2. noun (chiefly Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
  3. verb (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. “You reek of perfume.”
  4. verb (intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant. “The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.”
  5. verb (archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
  6. verb (archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
  7. verb (transitive, rare) To cause (something) to smell.
  8. verb (now rare, of rain or snow) To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.
  9. noun A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).
  10. noun (Ireland) A hill; a mountain.

Synonyms

smack funk honk hum niff pong smell stink stink to high heaven whiff malodor malodour stench fetor foetor mephitis fume

Antonyms

defunkify deodorize destinkify

Etymology

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-.
Cognate with West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook (“smoke”), Low German Röök, German Rauch (“smoke”), Danish røg (“smoke”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk røyk (“smoke”), Swedish rök (“smoke”), Faroese roykur (“smoke”), Icelandic reykur (“smoke”); also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”).

From Middle English reken (“to smoke”), from Old English rēocan, from Proto-West Germanic *reukan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną, from Proto-Indo-European *rougi-. See above.
Related to Dutch ruiken, Low German rüken, German riechen, Danish ryge, Swedish ryka.

From Middle English reke (“heap, pile”), from Old English hrēac.

Probably a transferred use (after Irish cruach (“stack (of corn), pile, mountain, hill”)) of a variant of rick, with which it is cognate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A rick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  2. noun Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
  3. verb To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

Etymology [AS. r; akin to OFries. r, LG. & D. rook, G. rauch, OHG. rouh, Dan. rr, Icel. reykr, and to AS. re to reek, smoke, Icel. rj, G. riechen to smell.]

Etymology [As. r. See Reek vapor..]

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