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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reeve

/ɹiːv/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms reeves reeving reeved rove reve

  1. noun (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
  2. noun (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
  3. noun (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
  4. verb (nautical, dialect) To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.
  5. noun A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.
  6. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a bailiff.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Vance Creek, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.

Synonyms

provost

Etymology

From Middle English reve, from Old English rēfa, an aphetism of ġerēfa (also grœ̄fa), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf.
The role, and eventually the word, was mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin.

Apparent alternative form of reef (“to pull or yank strongly”, verb) or from Dutch reven (“to take in, insert”).

Variant of dialectal ree, but of obscure ultimate origin.

* As an English surname, from the noun reeve.
* As an Irish surname, variant of Reeves.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The female of the ruff.
  2. verb To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
  3. noun an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; --used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

Etymology [Cf. D. reven. See Reef, n. & v. t.]

Etymology [OE. reve, AS. ger. Cf. Sheriff.]

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