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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root

UK /ɹuːt/ · US /ɹut/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms roots rooting rooted wrout rout wroot Rouet Roote Rootes

  1. noun The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. “This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.”
  2. noun A root vegetable.
  3. noun The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place. “Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.”
  4. noun The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place. “The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.”
  5. noun The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated. “He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.”
  6. noun (figurative) The primary source; origin. “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
  7. noun (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
  8. noun (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object. “The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.”
  9. verb To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. “The cuttings are starting to root.”
  10. verb To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings. “We rooted some cuttings last summer.”
  11. verb To fix firmly; to establish.
  12. verb (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism. “We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.”
  13. verb (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout. “A pig roots the earth for truffles.”
  14. verb (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
  15. verb (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil. “rooting about in a junk-filled drawer”
  16. verb (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
  17. verb (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
  18. verb (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
  19. verb (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
  20. noun An act of rummaging or searching.

Synonyms

fang basis origin source zero etymon superuser root account root user jailbreak dig out root out rummage screw bang drill shag Formal terms bed coit beginning rootage root word base stem theme radical solution ancestor ascendant

Antonyms

crest pole

Etymology

From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts (“root”), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); Doublet of wort, radish, and radix.
Cognate with Scots ruit, rute (“root”), Danish rod (“root”), Faroese and Icelandic rót (“root”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rot (“root”).

From Middle English wrōten (“to dig with the snout”), from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig out, to root”). Related to Old English wrōt (“snout; trunk”). Loss of initial w- probably due to influence from the related noun (Etymology 1).

Possibly an alteration of rout (“to make a loud noise”), influenced by hoot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
  2. verb Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
  3. verb To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
  4. noun (a) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.

Etymology [AS. wrotan; akin to wrot a snout, trunk, D. wroeten to root, G. rüssel snout, trunk, proboscis, Icel. rota to root, and perhaps to L. rodere to gnaw (E. rodent) or to E. root, n.]

Etymology [Icel. rot (for vrot); akin to E. wort, and perhaps to root to turn up the earth. See Wort.]

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

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