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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traipse

/tɹeɪps/ verb, noun

Forms traipses traipsing traipsed trapes

  1. verb (intransitive) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
  2. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
  3. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount. “While you were traipsing round Africa, I had to take care of mum and dad!”
  4. verb (transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort
  5. verb (transitive, colloquial) to walk about or over (a place) aimlessly or insouciantly.
  6. noun A long or tiring walk. “It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.”
  7. noun A meandering walk.

Synonyms

gad travel walk cover traverse hike trek shlep

Etymology

Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] Pope.

Etymology [Cf. G. trapsen, trappsen, trappen, to tread noisily, to walk stamping. See Trample, Trape.]

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