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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

rut

/ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ] noun, verb

Forms ruts rutting rutted

  1. noun (zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season; the state or season in which this is experienced.
  2. noun The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
  3. noun Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
  4. noun (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
  5. verb (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
  6. verb (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
  7. verb (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
  8. verb (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
  9. noun A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
  10. noun (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
  11. noun (figurative) A dull routine. “Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.”
  12. verb (transitive) To make a furrow.

Synonyms

heat grunt roar blissom brim bull oestruate do it get some have sex approach cohabit common company copulate couple engage in sex exchange flesh have intimate relations have marital relations groove estrus oestrus furrow

Etymology

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
  2. noun Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
  3. verb To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; --said of deer, cattle, etc.
  4. verb To cover in copulation. Dryden.

Etymology [F. rut, OF. ruit, L. ruditus a roaring, fr. rugire to roar; -sp called from the noise made by deer in rutting time.]

Etymology [variant of route.]

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

Sanskrit

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