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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grove

UK /ɡɹəʊv/ · US /ɡɹoʊv/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms groves groving groved

  1. noun A small forest.
  2. noun A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
  3. noun An orchard of fruit trees.
  4. noun (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
  5. noun A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
  6. verb To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
  7. verb (forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
  8. verb To plough or gouge with lines.
  9. proper noun A habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Slapton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9192).
  11. proper noun A village in Portland parish, Dorset (OS grid ref SY6972).
  12. proper noun A hamlet in Yarkhill parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6144).
  13. proper noun A hamlet in Wickhambreaux parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2361).
  14. proper noun A small village and civil parish (served by Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7379).
  15. proper noun A large village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4090).
  16. proper noun A suburb of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9800).

Synonyms

woodland groove woodlet orchard plantation

Etymology

From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”).
Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.

* As an English surname, from the noun grove.
* As a French surname, Americanized from Le Groux, Le Greux, reduced from Gréoul, of Germanic origin, from *grēduz (“hunger”) + *wulfaz (“wolf”).
* As a north German surname, from the Low German noun Graf (“ditch, grave”) (see grave). Also a Dutch and Low German form of Grub.
* As a German surname, variant of Graf.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees.

Etymology [AS. graf, fr. grafan to dig. Defn: The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave, v., and cf. Groove.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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