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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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weir

UK /wɪə̯/ · US /wɪɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of wear

Forms weirs weiring weired wear wier wyer

  1. noun (countable) An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
  2. noun (countable) A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
  3. noun (obsolete) Seaweed.
  4. verb To put a weir, or weirs (in a river)
  5. proper noun (countable) A surname.
  6. proper noun A village in Rossendale borough, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SD8725).
  7. proper noun A town and municipality in Bharatpur District, Rajasthan, India.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated village in Montcalm, Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  9. proper noun A minor city in Cherokee County, Kansas.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
  11. proper noun A town in Choctaw County, Mississippi.
  12. proper noun A minor city in Williamson County, Texas.

Etymology

From Middle English were, from Old English wer, from werian (“to dam up”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”); Cognate with Old Norse ver (“station for fishing”), Sanskrit वृणोति (vṛṇóti). Related to warranty.

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun weir. Compare Wear, Ware.
* Sometimes also a French surname, perhaps a version of Norman de la Were (“of the war”), see Warr. There is also the placename Wierre-au-Bois in Pas-de-Calais.
* As an Irish surname, shortened and Anglicized from Mac an Mhaoir (“son of the steward”), see McNair. Also sometimes Anglicized from erroneous translations of names such as Ó Corra, Ó Comhraidhe, see Corr and Curry.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
  2. noun A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.

Etymology [OE. wer, AS. wer; akin to G. wehr, AS. werian to defend, protect, hinder, G. wehren, Goth. warjan; and perhaps to E. wary; or cf. Skr. vr to check, hinder. sq. root142. Cf. Garret.]

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