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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roost

UK /ɹuːst/ · US /ɹust/ noun, verb

Forms roosts roosting roosted

  1. noun The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
  2. noun (collective) A group of birds roosting together.
  3. noun A bedroom.
  4. noun (Scotland) The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
  5. noun (Australian rules football) A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
  6. noun Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
  7. verb (intransitive, of flying vertebrates) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest.
  8. verb (figurative) To spend the night.
  9. verb (transitive, Australian rules football) To kick (a ball) a long distance.

Synonyms

perch rest

Etymology

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan.
Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Roast. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. verb See Roust, v. t.
  3. noun The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
  4. noun A collection of fowls roosting together. At roost, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest.

Etymology [AS. hrost; akin to OD. roest roost, roesten to roost, and probably to E. roof. Cf. Roof.]

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

Sanskrit

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