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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kirk

UK /kɜːk/ · US /kɜɹk/ noun, proper noun, verb

Forms kirks Kirking Kirked kyrk Kirke

  1. noun (Northern England and Scotland) A church.
  2. proper noun (UK) The Church of Scotland.
  3. proper noun A habitational surname from Middle English.
  4. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  5. proper noun A village in Ismayilli district, Azerbaijan.
  6. proper noun A small settlement in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref ND2859).
  7. proper noun A community in West Nipissing, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
  8. proper noun A census-designated place in Yuma County, Colorado.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon.
  10. noun (Internet slang) Fellatio.
  11. verb (slang, transitive) To kill or assassinate, especially for political reasons.

Synonyms

brain dome head mouth music neck Charlie Kirk JFK

Etymology

Inherited from Northern Middle English kirke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Koine Greek κῡρῐᾰκόν (kūrĭăkón), a nominalization of κῡριακός (kūriakós), or from Ancient Greek -ον (-on). Doublet of church.

From kirk, from Northern Middle English kirke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Koine Greek κῡρῐᾰκόν (kūrĭăkón), a nominalization of κῡριακός (kūriakós), or from Ancient Greek -ον (-on). Doublet of Church.
The sense meaning fellatio as well as the verb are derived from the shooting of Charlie Kirk, as he was shot in the neck (“fellatio”).

From Charlie Kirk, an assassinated right-wing media personality.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches, or from the Roman Catholic Church. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Etymology [Scot.; cf. Icel. kirkja, of Greek origin. See Church.]

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