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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hoar

UK /hɔː/ · US /hoɹ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Also a form of hare

Forms hoars hoaring hoared Hoare

  1. noun A white or greyish-white colour.
  2. noun Hoariness; antiquity.
  3. adjective Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  4. adjective (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  6. adjective (archaic) Figuratively, grey or grey-haired with age; ancient, venerable.
  7. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

agedness ancientness oldhood frosty frost hoarfrost rime grey gray grey-haired gray-haired grey-headed gray-headed grizzly hoary white-haired

Etymology

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

* As an English surname, from the adjective hoar (“greyish white”).
* Also as an English surname, from Ore in Sussex, or its source Old English ōra (“edge, brink”).
Compare Middle English Hore.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser.
  2. adjective Gray or white with age; hoary.
  3. noun Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]
  4. verb To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. hor, har, AS. har; akin to Icel. harr, and to OHG. her illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Heiedh brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. ketus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.]

Etymology [AS. harian to grow gray.]

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