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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sock

UK /sɒk/ · US /sɑk/ noun, interjection, verb, adjective

Forms socks sox socking socked zock

  1. noun (clothing) A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
  2. noun (historical, uncommon) Synonym of soccus, a light shoe worn by Ancient Greek and Roman comedic actors.
  3. noun The lower leg of an animal (of an animal) that is a different color (usually white) from the color pattern on the rest of the animal.
  4. noun A sleeve for a microphone to reduce noise.
  5. interjection The sound of a punch or powerful blow.
  6. verb (slang, transitive) To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.
  7. verb (slang, transitive) To throw.
  8. noun (slang) A violent blow; a punch.
  9. adjective (slang, dated) Extremely successful.
  10. noun A ploughshare.

Synonyms

sockie Thalia soccus mitten socko windsock wind sock air sock air-sleeve wind sleeve wind cone drogue bop whop whap bonk bash

Etymology

From Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language. Beekes compares Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬑𐬀 (haxa, “sole of the foot”). Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), German Socke (“sock”), Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”). Doublet of zocco; also related to zoccolo, socle, and zocalo.

Onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese soco (“a hit with one's hand; a punch”).

From French soc.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A plowshare. Edin. Encyc.
  2. noun The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, --used as a sumbol of comedy, of the comic drams, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
  3. noun A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Etymology [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.]

Etymology [OE. sock, AS. socc, fr. L. soccus a kind of low- heeled, light shoe. Cf. Sucket.]

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