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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bourne

UK /bɔːn/ · US /boɹn/ noun, proper noun

Forms bournes

  1. noun (countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.
  2. noun (archaic) A goal or destination.
  3. noun A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
  4. proper noun A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
  5. proper noun A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
  6. proper noun A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
  7. proper noun Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
  8. proper noun A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
  9. proper noun A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bourn

Etymology

From Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.

From Middle English bourne, from Old English burna. Doublet of burn.

The placename and English surname are derived from Old English burna (“stream”), whence also the common noun bourne (“stream”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A stream or rivulet; a burn.
  2. noun A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.

Etymology [OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. Torrent, and see Burn, v.]

Etymology [F. borne. See Bound a limit.]

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