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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Mary

/ˈmɛə.ɹi/ proper noun

Also a form of marry

Forms Marys Maries Marie

  1. proper noun A female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew.
  2. proper noun (religion) The mother of Jesus; believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin, and believed by most Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have been assumed into Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intercessor for believers.
  3. proper noun Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus.
  4. proper noun Mary of Bethany, the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
  5. proper noun (Islam) Synonym of Maryam (“The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an”)
  6. proper noun (chiefly US, gay slang) A term of address for a male homosexual.
  7. proper noun (Ireland, dated) A male middle name, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.
  8. proper noun A city, the capital of the region of Mary, in southeastern Turkmenistan.
  9. proper noun A region in southeastern Turkmenistan.

Synonyms

advocatrix Blessed Virgin Blessed Virgin Mary Christotokos Coredemptrix Deipara Holy Mary Holy Mother Holy Mother of God Madonna Maria Mater Dei Miriam Morning Star Mother of God Mother of Mercy Mother of Sorrows New Eve Our Lady Our Lady of Dolors Virgin Mary The Virgin

Etymology

From Middle English Marie, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from post-Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic מַרְיָם (Maryām), from Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (Miryām), of uncertain meaning. (See the Hebrew entry for more.) Doublet of Miriam, Marie, Maria, and Mariah.

Borrowed from Turkmen Mary, from Classical Persian مَرْو (marw). Doublet of Merv, Marw, and Marv.

From Mary (“female name”). Compare nan and nancy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Marrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. interjection See Marry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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