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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Delaware

UK /ˈdɛləweə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈdɛləwɛɹ/ proper noun, noun

Forms Delawares Delawar

  1. proper noun A river flowing from the Catskills through New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware in the northeastern United States and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay.
  2. proper noun Two closely related Algonquian languages of these people, Munsee and Unami.
  3. proper noun The first state of the United States. Capital: Dover. Largest city: Wilmington.
  4. proper noun A river in the United States that flows from northeast Kansas into the Kansas River.
  5. proper noun A city, the county seat of Delaware County, Ohio.
  6. proper noun A city in Delaware County, Iowa.
  7. proper noun A town in Sullivan County, New York.
  8. proper noun A town in Nowata County, Oklahoma.
  9. noun A member of the Lenape people, the indigenous people of Lenapehoking, in what is now the Mid-Atlantic United States.
  10. noun (plural only "Delawares") An American variety of grape, with compact bunches of small, sweet, amber-colored berries.

Synonyms

Lenape Leni Lenape Lenni Lenape Delaware River Diamond State First State DE

Etymology

The river in the northeastern United States was named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618). The people and the state were named for the river. For the surname, see De La Warr.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

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