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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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fay

/feɪ/ verb, adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms fays faying fayed Faye

  1. verb (obsolete) To fit, to add.
  2. verb (shipbuilding, transitive) To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
  3. verb (shipbuilding, intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
  4. verb (obsolete) To fadge.
  5. adjective Fitted closely together.
  6. noun A fairy.
  7. adjective Fairy-like.
  8. noun (obsolete) faith
  9. verb (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
  10. noun (US slang) A white person.
  11. adjective (US slang) White; white-skinned.
  12. proper noun An Anglo-Irish surname transferred from the nickname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
  13. proper noun A surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)
  14. proper noun A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
  15. proper noun A commune in Orne department, Normandy, France.
  16. proper noun A commune in Sarthe department, Pays de la Loire, France.
  17. proper noun A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States.
  19. proper noun A census-designated place in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States.

Synonyms

affix attach put together fairy faery faerie sprite

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English fēġan (“to join, unite”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōgijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōgijaną (“to join”), from *fōgō (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Saterland Frisian fougje (“to join, add”), West Frisian foegje (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), German Low German fögen (“to join, add”), German fügen (“to connect”), Old English fōn (“to catch”). More at fang.

Inherited from Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fée (“fairy", "fae”), from Old French fae, from Medieval Latin fāda. More at fairy.

From Middle English fei, from Old French fei

Inherited from Middle English feien (“to cleanse”), from Old Norse fægja (“to cleanse, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *fēgijaną (“to decorate, make beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *pōḱ-, *pēḱ- (“to clean, adorn”). Cognate with Swedish feja (“to sweep”), Danish feje (“to sweep”), German fegen (“to cleanse, scour, sweep”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, strike”). More at feague, fake, fair.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fairy; an elf. "Yellow-skirted fays." Milton.
  2. noun Faith; as, by my fay. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  3. verb To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.
  4. verb To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; --often with in, into, with, or together. Faying surface, that surface of an object which comes with another object to which it is fastened; --said of plates, angle irons, etc., that are riveted together in shipwork.

Etymology [F. fée. See Fate, and cf. Fairy.]

Etymology [OF. fei, F. foi. See Faith.]

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