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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wee

/wiː/ adjective, noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms weer weest wees weeing weed

  1. adjective (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand, Ottawa Valley, Mid-Ulster) Small, little. “You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.”
  2. noun A short time or short distance.
  3. noun (colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
  4. noun (colloquial, countable) An act of urination. “I need to have a wee.”
  5. verb (UK, colloquial) To urinate. “I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!”
  6. interjection The squeal of a pig.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

wee-wee urine urination make urinate piddle puddle micturate piss pee pee-pee make water relieve oneself take a leak spend a penny pass water bitty bittie teensy teentsy teeny weeny weensy teensy-weensy teeny-weeny itty-bitty itsy-bitsy

Etymology

From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).

Onomatopoeic for the sound of urination. The noun derives from the verb.

See we.

Borrowed from Hokkien 黃／黄 (Ûiⁿ), etc.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance. [Obs. or Scot.]
  2. adjective Very small; little. [Colloq. & Scot.]

Etymology [OE. we a bit, in a little we, probably originally meaning, a little way, the word we for wei being later taken as synonymous with little. See Way.]

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

Sanskrit

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