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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loot

UK /luːt/ · US /lut/ noun, verb

Forms loots looting looted lute

  1. noun Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat. “The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.”
  2. noun Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war. “He consented to the loot of the city by the men under his command.”
  3. noun (colloquial, US) Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
  4. noun (slang) Synonym of money.
  5. verb (transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence, particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat. “We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.”
  6. verb (transitive) To rifle through a dead body and the deceased's belongings, taking anything worth stealing. “It's shameful to loot the bodies of the people who died today.”
  7. verb (transitive, chiefly South Asian) Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
  8. noun (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.

Synonyms

booty goods seized from an enemy by violence particularly sack money plunder to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or rob pillage prize swag dirty money boodle bread cabbage clams dinero dough gelt kale lettuce lolly lucre moolah pelf scratch shekels simoleons sugar

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

Borrowed from Middle Dutch loet or loete (“scoop, shovel, scraper”), from reconstructed Old Dutch *lōta, from Old Frankish *lōtija (“scoop”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō (“scoop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”).
Related to lade and ladle, and cognate with Dutch loet, Scots lute or luyt (“scoop”), West Frisian loete or lete, Middle Low German lōte (“rake”), and French louche (“ladle”).

Clipping.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of plundering.
  2. noun Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.
  3. verb To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. L.O

Etymology [Hind. l, Skr. l, l, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.]

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