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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yak

/jæk/ noun, verb

Forms yaks yakking yakked yack

  1. noun An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
  2. verb (slang, intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
  3. verb (slang, intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
  4. noun (slang) A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip.
  5. noun (slang) A laugh.
  6. noun (slang) Vomit.
  7. noun a traditional Korean flute used in court music
  8. noun (slang) A kayak.
  9. noun (slang) cognac.
  10. noun (slang, chiefly in the plural) A yakuza member.

Synonyms

yack yakety-yak chatter cackle Bos grunniens gab

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag). See there for more.

Apparently an onomatopoeia.

Borrowed from Korean 약 (yak).

Shortening of various unrelated words.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bovine mammal (Poëphagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc. Yak lace, a coarse pillow lace made from the silky hair of the yak.

Etymology [Thibetan gyag.]

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

Sanskrit

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