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

“reaps” is a form of

reap

/ˈɹiːp/ verb, noun

Forms reaps reaping reaped reapt

  1. verb (transitive) To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
  2. verb (transitive) To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
  3. verb (transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. “to reap a benefit from exertions”
  4. verb (transitive, computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table. “Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.”
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
  6. verb (euphemistic, slang) To rape.
  7. noun A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Synonyms

harvest sheaf wheatsheaf glean draw

Etymology

From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  2. verb To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; --in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
  3. verb To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
  4. noun A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Etymology [OE. repen, AS. ripan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.]

Etymology [Cf. AS. rip harvest. See Reap, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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