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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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maw

UK /mɔː/ · US /mɔ/ noun, proper noun

Forms maws

  1. noun The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of an animal.
  2. noun (furry fandom) The mouth and jaws of a furry.
  3. noun (slang, derogatory) The mouth. “Shut your maw!”
  4. noun (figurative) Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
  5. noun (obsolete, uncountable) Appetite; inclination.
  6. noun The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
  7. noun (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
  8. noun (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
  9. noun A gull.
  10. noun (Lewis, slang) A person from a rural area of the Isle of Lewis, i.e. outwith Stornoway; a country bumpkin.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

trap yap cakehole hole gob

Antonyms

townie

Etymology

From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”).
Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave,
Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian мошна́ (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”), Finnish maha (“stomach”), Estonian magu (“stomach”).

Variant of ma.

* As an English surname, from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *makô (“mate, relative”), comparable to modern match.
* Also as an English surname, from archaic mew (“seagull”); compare the surname Mew.
* Also as an English surname, from archaic maw (“belly”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A gull.
  2. noun A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; --now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. Chaucer.
  3. noun Appetite; inclination. [Obs.]
  4. noun An old game at cards. Sir A. Weldon.

Etymology [See Mew a gull.]

Etymology [OE. mawe, AS. maga stomach; akin to D. maag, OHG. mago, G. magen, Icel. magi, Sw. mage, Dan. mave. 1. A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. Chaucer. Bellies and maws of living creatures. Bacon. 2. Appetite; inclination. [Obs.]

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