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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rick

/ɹɪk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms ricks ricking ricked ruck Ric Rik

  1. noun Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
  2. noun (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
  3. verb To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
  4. verb To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
  5. verb (transitive, dialectal) To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
  6. noun (dialectal) A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
  7. verb (intransitive, dialectal) To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
  8. verb (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble.
  9. verb (transitive, dialectal) To scold.
  10. verb (intransitive, dialectal) To raffle.
  11. noun (intransitive, dialectal) A noise, rattling.
  12. noun (military, derogatory and demeaning) A new and naive boot camp inductee. “No turning back now, rick: you are the property of the US government now.”
  13. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Richard, as well as similar name such as Ricardo.
  14. proper noun A surname transferred from the given name.

Synonyms

crick kink wrick haystack hayrick twist sprain wrench turn

Etymology

From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hrēac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Icelandic hraukur, Irish cruach. Doublet of croagh.

From earlier wrick, from Middle English wricken, wrikken (“to move back and forth”), probably from Middle Dutch *verwricken or Middle Low German vorwricken. Cognate with West Frisian wrikke, wrikje, Dutch wrikken, Low German wricken, German wricken, Danish vrikke, Swedish vricka.

From Middle English *rikken (attested only as palatised variant Middle English richen (“to pull, tug; to move, proceed, run; to twist, turn”)), from Old Norse rykkja (“to move, rock, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkijaną (“to rock, move”). Cognate with English rock. Possibly merged with Middle English wrikken (“to move to and fro, move back and forth”), see Etymology 2 above.

Abbreviated form from recruit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
  2. verb To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.

Etymology [OE. reek, rek, AS. hreác a heap; akin to hryce rick, Icel. hraukr.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “rick” (best matches first).