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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lop

UK /lɒp/ · US /lɑp/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms lops lopping lopped lopt Lob

  1. verb (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
  2. verb To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  3. verb To allow to hang down.
  4. noun That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
  5. noun (Geordie) A flea. “Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.”
  6. noun (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
  7. noun Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
  8. proper noun A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
  9. proper noun A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Synonyms

snead Lo-p'u Lohpu Luopu discerp sever snip clip crop trim dress prune cut back

Etymology

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

Back-formation from lopsided.

Borrowed from Uyghur لوپ (lop).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.
  2. verb To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shoas, to lop a tree or its branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." Milton.
  3. verb To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
  4. noun That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.

Etymology [AS. loppe.]

Etymology [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, D. lubben.]

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