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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knit

/nɪt/ verb, noun

Forms knits knitting knat knitted knitten

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. “to knit a stocking”
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front. “Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.”
  3. verb (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together. “The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
  5. verb (intransitive) To grow together. “All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.”
  6. verb (transitive) To combine from various elements. “The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.”
  7. verb (intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture. “I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.”
  8. verb (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  9. noun A knitted garment.
  10. noun A session of knitting.

Synonyms

knit stitch plain plain stitch knitting knitwork entwine pucker rumple cockle crumple

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan, from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuttijaną, from *knuttô + *-janą.
Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
  2. verb To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.
  3. verb To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.
  4. verb To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound. To knit up, to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. "It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas." [Obs.] Holland.

Etymology [OE. knitten, knutten, As. cnyttan, fr. cnotta knot; akin to Icel. kn, Sw. knyta, Dan. knytte. See Knot.]

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

Sanskrit

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