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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wye

/ˈwaɪ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms wyes wying wyeing wyed why wy

  1. noun The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.
  2. noun A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track. “A wye is used to split a single line [hose or cable] into two lines.”
  3. verb (transitive) To make something into a wye (letter Y) shape. “When a hose line is divided into two or more lines, these lines are known as wyed lines.”
  4. verb (transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of a train using a wye. “Since the train didn't have a control cab at the other end, they wyed the train to turn it around for the trip back to the city.”
  5. proper noun A river in Wales and England, including Powys, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire, the fifth-longest in the UK.
  6. proper noun A river in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, which flows into the River Derwent.
  7. proper noun A river in Buckinghamshire, England, which joins the Thames at Bourne End.
  8. proper noun A village in Wye with Hinxhill parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0546).

Synonyms

Y

Etymology

Attested as wi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from Old French ui or gui.

From Brythonic; compare Welsh Gwy. Lye and Bosworth instead suggest Old English wæg (“wave”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The letter Y.
  2. noun A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

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