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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jersey

UK /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/ · US /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/ noun, proper noun

Forms jerseys

  1. noun (countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.
  2. noun (countable, US) A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype. “A young boy was wearing a Manchester City Erling Haaland jersey.”
  3. noun (uncountable) A type of fabric knit.
  4. proper noun An island, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England. “They usually holiday on Jersey or the Isle of Man.”
  5. proper noun (US, informal, especially following north or south) New Jersey. “He washes dishes in Manhattan. He commutes from Jersey, just like many others who can't afford Manhattan's ridiculous rents.”
  6. proper noun A certain English earldom.
  7. proper noun A town in Georgia, United States.
  8. noun A breed of dairy cattle developed on Jersey. “The Jersey is the queen of the creamery, in my neighbor's estimation.”
  9. noun Any individual of this breed. “She's our butter queen, our dandy Jersey, Mary Ann.”

Synonyms

jumper pullover sweater guernsey shirt New Jersey Garden State NJ island of Jersey T-shirt tee shirt

Etymology

From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey.

From Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (“Geirr's”) + ey (“island”). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.
  2. noun A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).

Etymology [From Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands.]

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