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

“rie” is a form of

rye

/ɹaɪ/ noun, proper noun

Forms ryes Reay

  1. noun A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. “They bought a sack of rye and a sack of wheat with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.”
  2. noun The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. “This field will be planted to rye next spring.”
  3. noun (US, Canada, countable) A drink (serving) of rye whiskey. “I'll have a rye, neat, please.”
  4. noun (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
  5. noun (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
  6. noun A disease of hawks.
  7. noun (gypsy slang) A young man.
  8. proper noun A small town and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ9220).
  9. proper noun A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7750).
  10. proper noun A river in North Yorkshire, England, that flows through Ryedale to join the Derwent.
  11. proper noun A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Gila County, Arizona.
  13. proper noun A census-designated place in Cleveland County, Arkansas.
  14. proper noun A small statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida.

Synonyms

Secale cereale rye whiskey rye whisky

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English rye, rie, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz.
Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.

* As an English surname, variant of Rea.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun rye.
* As a Norwegian surname, from several farmsteads whose name derive from Old Norse rjóðr (“forest clearing”); see the verb ryðja (“to clear”).
* As a Danish surname, from the town Ry in Skanderbord.
* The town in England is perhaps derived from Old English riþ (“river, stream”) whence also rith; compare ree.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
  2. noun A disease in a hawk. Ainsworth. Rye grass, Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under Grass. See also Ray grass, and Darnel.

Etymology [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw. råg, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G. rocken, roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. To Gr. 'o`ryza rice. Cf. Rice.]

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