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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“bolled” is a form of

boll

UK /bɒl/ · US /boʊl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of Boell

Forms bolls bolling bolled Boell

  1. noun The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
  2. noun A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl.
  3. noun (Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
  4. verb To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
  5. proper noun A surname from German.
  6. proper noun A surname from Danish.

Etymology

From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”), from Frankish *bollo, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.

* As a Danish and German surname, from Danish Bøll, German Böll.
* Also as a German surname, from the personal name Baldo (see Bold). Compare Boell.
* As an English surname, variant of Bull.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun bowl. Compare Bowler.
* As a Scottish surname, variant of Boyle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
  2. noun A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]
  3. verb To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

Etymology [OE. bolle boll, bowl, AS. bolla. See Bowl a vessel.]

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