Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

eyas

/ˈaɪəs/ noun

Forms eyases eyasses eyass

noun A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry.
noun (figurative) Something diminutive and immature or untrained.

Synonyms

Rebracketing of a nyas as an eyas.

noun A nesting or unfledged Lird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to pr Shak J. H. Walsh
adjective Unfledged, or newly fledged. [Obs.]

Etymology [F.niais fresh from the nest, a derivative fr. L. nidus nest. E. an eyas for a nias. See Nest, and cf. Nias, Jashawk.]

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