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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cocoa

UK /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ · US /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of coco

Forms cocoas

  1. noun The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
  2. noun An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  3. noun (uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar. “Do you like cocoa?”
  4. noun (countable) A serving of this drink. “I like to watch TV with a cocoa.”
  5. noun (countable) A light to medium brown colour.
  6. adjective Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.
  7. proper noun (computing) an object-oriented programming API for macOS
  8. proper noun (rare) A unisex given name.
  9. proper noun A city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.

Synonyms

chocolate drinking chocolate hot chocolate

Etymology

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa came about by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.

By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
  2. noun A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells. Cocoa shells, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

Etymology [Corrupted fr. cacao.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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