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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ebb

/ɛb/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms ebbs ebber ebbest ebbing ebbed ebbe

  1. noun The receding movement of the tide. “The boats will go out on the ebb.”
  2. noun A gradual decline.
  3. noun (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
  4. noun A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
  5. adjective low, shallow
  6. verb (intransitive) to flow back or recede “The tides ebbed at noon.”
  7. verb (intransitive) to fall away or decline “The dying man's strength ebbed away.”
  8. verb (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
  9. verb (transitive) To cause to flow back.

Synonyms

go out go down ooze reflux wane ebbing ebb away ebb down ebb out ebb off

Antonyms

flood flow tide

Etymology

From Middle English ebbe, from Old English ebba (“ebb, tide”), from Proto-West Germanic *abbjā, from Proto-Germanic *abjô, *abjǭ, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-European *apó.
See also West Frisian ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe, Danish ebbe, Old Norse efja (“countercurrent”), Old English af. More at of, off.

From Middle English ebben, from Old English ebbian, from Proto-West Germanic *abbjōn (“to ebb”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The European bunting.
  2. noun The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; --opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley.
  3. noun The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay. "Our ebb of life." Roscommon.
  4. verb To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; --opposed to flow.

Etymology [AS. ebba; akin to Fries. ebba, D. eb, ebbe, Dan. & G. ebbe, Sw. ebb, cf. Goth. ibuks backward; prob. akin to E. even.]

Etymology [AS. ebbian; akin to D. & G. ebben, Dan. ebbe. See 2d Ebb.]

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