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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shaw

UK /ʃɔː/ · US /ʃɔ/ noun, interjection, proper noun

Forms shaws shawe

  1. noun (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
  2. noun (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
  3. interjection (fandom slang) A kind of battle cry or warning.
  4. interjection Censored spelling of shit.
  5. proper noun An English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.
  6. proper noun A village in Shaw cum Donnington parish and Newbury parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS red ref SU4868).
  7. proper noun A town in Shaw and Crompton parish, Oldham borough, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9308).
  8. proper noun A hamlet in Oxenhope parish, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0234).
  9. proper noun A village in Melksham Without parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8865).
  10. proper noun A suburb and ward in west Swindon, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1185).
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Neosho County, Kansas, United States.
  12. proper noun A small city in Bolivar County and Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.

Synonyms

Artie Shaw Arthur Jacob Arshawsky Henry Wheeler Shaw Josh Billings Anna Howard Shaw G. B. Shaw George Bernard Shaw

Etymology

From Old English sċeaga, scaga. Cognate with Old Norse skógr (“forest, wood”), whence Danish skov (“forest”). Doublet of scaw.

From an onomatopoeic/gibberishlike origin from Hollow Knight and its character Hornet while fighting her, and occasionally she plays one of multiple voice clips.

From shaw.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thicket; a small wood or grove. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.]
  2. noun pl.

Etymology [OE. schawe, scha, thicket, grove, AS. scaga; akin to Dan. skov, Sw. skog, Icel. sk.]

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