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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stare

UK /stɛə/ · US /stɛɚ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms stares staring stared

  1. verb (intransitive, followed by "at") To look fixedly (at something). “She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.”
  2. verb (transitive) To influence in some way by looking fixedly. “to stare a timid person into submission”
  3. verb (intransitive) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy. “staring windows or colours”
  4. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
  5. noun A persistent gaze. “the stares of astonished passers-by”
  6. noun (now archaic) A starling.
  7. proper noun Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002), American nutritionist
  8. proper noun Ward Stare (born 1982), American conductor
  9. proper noun A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  10. proper noun A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  11. proper noun A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  12. proper noun A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
  13. proper noun A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
  14. proper noun A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
  15. proper noun A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.
  16. proper noun A village and municipality in okres Michalovce, Košice kraj, eastern Slovakia, first mentioned in 1273.

Synonyms

gaw gloar glom common starling European starling gaze

Etymology

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.
Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”).
Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

From Polish Stare and Ukrainian Старе́ (Staré), both neuter substantives of adjectives — Polish stary and Ukrainian стари́й (starýj) — meaning “old”, both of which ultimately descend from Proto-Slavic *stàrъ. Compare Staroye.

From Slovak Staré.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The starling. [Obs.]
  2. verb To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
  3. verb To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
  4. verb To look earnestly at; to gaze at. I will stare him out of his wits. Shak.

Etymology [AS. stær. See Starling.]

Etymology [AS. starian; akin to LG. & D. staren, OHG. staren, G. starren, Icel. stara; cf. Icel. stira, Dan. stirre, Sw. stirra, and G. starr stiff, rigid, fixed, Gr. stereo-), Skr. sthira firm, strong. *166. Cf. Sterile.]

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