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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midway

/mɪdweɪ/ noun, adjective, adverb, proper noun

Forms midways

  1. noun The middle; the midst.
  2. noun A middle way or manner; a mean or middle path between extremes.
  3. noun (US) The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
  4. noun (US) The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned.
  5. adjective Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle. “He told me to identify a good midway point at which I could pause the job.”
  6. adverb Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points. “He stopped me midway through the job and told me to put it on hold.”
  7. proper noun An atoll in the North Pacific the site of a major World War II battle.
  8. proper noun A village in Belize.
  9. proper noun A village in British Columbia, Canada.
  10. proper noun A suburb of Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England.
  11. proper noun A town in Bullock County, Alabama.
  12. proper noun A populated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  13. proper noun A census-designated place in Baxter County, Arkansas.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Clark County, Arkansas.

Synonyms

midpoint center middle middle course halfway Battle of Midway

Etymology

From Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid- + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”).

A proprialization from midway. Many of the places with this name got their name from being more or less midway along a journey between two other important places.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.
  2. adjective Being in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air. Shak.
  3. adverb In the middle of the way or distance; half way. "She met his glance midway." Dryden.

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

Sanskrit

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