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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peek

/piːk/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms peeks peeking peeked

  1. verb To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. “Close your eyes, and no peeking!”
  2. verb To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
  3. verb (video games, especially first-person shooters) To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information). “Sniper watching the site; don't peek.”
  4. verb To take a look at; to check out. “Peek my new shoes.”
  5. verb (computing, dated) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
  6. noun A quick glance or look.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

peep glance glint

Etymology

From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of Middle English kepen, kipen, kypen (“to keep, look, observe, watch”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]

Etymology [OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce, prick, E. pique. Cf. Peak.]

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