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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kitchen

UK /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n/ · US /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms kitchens kitchening kitchened kitchin

  1. noun A room or area for preparing food. “We cook in the kitchen.”
  2. noun (by extension) Cuisine; style of cooking.
  3. noun (chiefly African-American Vernacular) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
  4. noun (music) The percussion section of an orchestra.
  5. noun (dated) A utensil for roasting meat.
  6. noun (attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
  7. noun (slang) A public gaming room in a casino.
  8. noun (obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
  9. verb To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
  10. verb To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
  11. verb (by extension) To embellish; to dress up.
  12. proper noun (countable) A surname.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio, United States
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States

Etymology

From Middle English kichene, kichen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.
  2. noun A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. Kitchen garden.
  3. verb To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen.

Etymology [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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