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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conch

UK /ˈkɒŋk/ · US /ˈkɑŋk/ noun, verb

Forms conchs conches conching conched conk conque

  1. noun A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
  2. noun The shell of this sea animal.
  3. noun A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
  4. noun (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
  5. noun Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
  6. verb To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
  7. verb To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
  8. noun (dated, ethnic slur) A British Bahamian.
  9. noun A European caucasian Bahamian
  10. noun (slang) A denizen of the Florida Keys

Synonyms

concher

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concha, borrowed from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “a mussel or cockle; a shell-like cavity”). Doublet of concha.

* (Bahamas): in reference to the seafood that made up much of their diet.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
  2. noun In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

Etymology [L. concha, Gr. Coach, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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