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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snort

/snɔɹt/ noun, verb

Forms snorts snorting snorted

  1. noun The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
  2. noun (slang) A dose of snuff or other drug to be snorted.
  3. noun (slang) A consumed portion of an alcoholic drink.
  4. noun (nautical, UK) A submarine snorkel.
  5. verb (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose. “She snorted with laughter.”
  6. verb (transitive) To express or force out by snorting. “He snorted a derisory reply and turned on his heel.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To express contempt or disgust by (or as if by) a snorting sound.
  8. verb (transitive, slang, originally US) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose. “to snort cocaine”
  9. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.
  10. verb (intransitive, nautical, of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.

Synonyms

insufflate snicker snigger boo hoot Bronx cheer hiss raspberry razzing razz bird huff take a hit

Etymology

From Middle English snorten, from earlier fnorten, from Old English *fnorettan, related to Middle English snoren, fnoren, from Old English fnora. See snore and sneeze for more on the change from fn- to sn-.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play. Fairfax.
  2. verb To snore. [R.] "The snorting citizens." Shak.
  3. noun The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
  4. verb To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort. Keats.

Etymology [OE. snorten; akin to snoren. See Snore.]

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

Sanskrit

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