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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hex

/ˈhɛks/ verb, noun

Forms hexes hexing hexed

  1. verb (transitive) To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.
  2. noun An evil spell or curse.
  3. noun A witch.
  4. noun (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
  5. noun (video game modding, chiefly Petz) A modified game file.
  6. verb (video game modding, chiefly Petz) To modify a game file using a hex editor.
  7. noun A hexagonal space on a game board.
  8. noun (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.

Synonyms

bespell jinx spellbind bechat becry beglammer bewitch conjure enchant englamour ensorcell enspell forspeak glamour maleficiate mojo spell spellcast witch malediction curse whammy hexadecimal

Etymology

First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.

Short for hexadecimal.

Short for hexagon.

Short for hexafluoride.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “hex”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details