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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e

/iː/ numeral, noun, pronoun, proper noun

Forms es e's ees em eir eirs emself ee O

  1. numeral The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
  2. noun The name of the Latin script letter E/e.
  3. pronoun (rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
  4. noun (music, informal) The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat. “The sax comes in on the e of one.”
  5. noun (slang) The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
  6. noun The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.
  7. proper noun (history) A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
  8. proper noun (history) Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
  9. proper noun A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
  10. proper noun A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.
  11. proper noun A river in Highland council area, Scotland.

Synonyms

ey vitamin E tocopherol einsteinium Es atomic number 99 east due east eastward

Etymology

The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).

From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.

From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, Ea, Eo, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:
* Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).
* Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).
* Old English digraph Ea, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).
* Old English digraph Eo from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (eo).
* Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “e”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details