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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davenport

UK /ˈdævənpɔːt/ · US /ˈdævɪnˌpɔɹt/ noun, proper noun

Forms davenports Devenport

  1. noun A large sofa, especially a formal one.
  2. noun A writing desk, especially a small one.
  3. proper noun A habitational surname from Old English from the town in Cheshire.
  4. proper noun A surname from Irish of Irish origin from the Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh.
  5. proper noun A surname from Anglo-Norman of Anglo-Norman origin: de avesne port, where avesne is derived from Frankish avisna ("field" see:Wiese).
  6. proper noun A hamlet in Brereton parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8065).
  7. proper noun A suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, historically in Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ8988).
  8. proper noun A neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  9. proper noun A census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California.
  10. proper noun A city in Polk County, Florida.

Etymology

* (sofa, couch): The sofa sense is a genericized trademark named after the defunct furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company. From the surname Davenport. Named after American businessman Albert H. Davenport

* As an English surname, from Middle English Devennport, named after the River Dane + port. The first element is from Welsh dafn (“trickle, drop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“mist, haze”).
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Donndubhartaigh (“descendant of Donndubhartach”), which is from donn (“brown”) + dubh (“black”) + artach (“nobleman”); see airigh.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

Etymology [From the name of the original maker. Encyc. Dict.]

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