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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matronymic

/ˌmætɹəˈnɪmɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms matronymics

  1. adjective Of, relating to, or derived from the given name of one's mother. “In many countries, matronymic surnames can be adopted after the death of the father, although the process is very formal and lengthy.”
  2. adjective By extension; of, relating to, or derived from the given name of a female ancestor.
  3. noun A surname or byname acquired from the given name of one's mother.
  4. noun By extension, a surname or byname acquired from the given name from a female ancestor.

Synonyms

metronymic matronym metronym

Etymology

From Latin māter (“mother”) + English -onym + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Metronymic.

Etymology [L. mater mother + -nymic, as in patronimic.]

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