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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matron

/ˈmeɪtɹən/ noun

Forms matrons

  1. noun A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.
  2. noun A woman with the character of a mother or matriarch.
  3. noun A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital. “the matron of a school or hospital”
  4. noun A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children.
  5. noun A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.
  6. noun (US) A female prison officer.

Etymology

From Middle English matrone, from Old French matrone, from Latin mātrōna (“married woman”), from māter (“mother”). Doublet of matrona.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
  2. noun A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital. Jury of matrons (Law), a jury of experienced women called to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.

Etymology [F. matrone, L. matrona, fr. mater mother. See Mother.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “matron” (best matches first).