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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“quivers” is a form of

quiver

UK /ˈkwɪvə/ · US /ˈkwɪvɚ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms quivers quivering quivered

  1. noun (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
  2. noun (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. “He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.”
  3. noun (obsolete) A vulva.
  4. noun (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  5. noun (mathematics) A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
  6. adjective (archaic) Nimble, active.
  7. verb (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
  8. noun The act of quivering.
  9. proper noun A stream in Illinois, United States; in full, Quiver Creek.
  10. proper noun A township in Mason County, Illinois, United States, named after Quiver Creek.

Synonyms

tremble quake shudder shiver flutter frisson chill thrill tingle shaking shakiness trembling quivering vibration palpitation palpitate flicker waver flitter pulsate beat

Etymology

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.
The mathematical sense originated as German Köcher in a 1972 paper by Pierre Gabriel; it was likely chosen because a quiver contains arrows, while a digraph contains directed edges (also called "arrows").

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Corruption of the French Cuivre, from cuivre (“copper”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Nimble; active. [Obs.] " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
  2. verb To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  3. noun The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
  4. noun A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

Etymology [Akin to AS. cwiferlice anxiously; cf. OD. kuiven, kuiveren. Cf. Quaver.]

Etymology [Cf. Quaver.]

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

Sanskrit

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