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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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min

/mɪn/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of ming

Forms mins minning minned myn minne mynne min.

  1. adjective (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Less; smaller; lower.
  2. noun (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) to bring to the mind of; remind
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) to remember
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) to mention
  6. noun (informal) minoxidil
  7. proper noun An Ancient Egyptian god of fertility and procreation.
  8. proper noun A river in Fujian, China.
  9. proper noun A group of related Chinese languages from Fujian, including Hokkien and Eastern Min.
  10. proper noun A widely construed ethnic group composed of the speakers of those languages.
  11. proper noun Fujian province.
  12. proper noun A river in Sichuan, China.
  13. proper noun A male given name.
  14. proper noun A female given name.
  15. proper noun The Mountain Ok ethnic group of Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.

Synonyms

minute Min dialect Fukien Fukkianese Hokkianese Amoy Taiwanese

Antonyms

max

Etymology

From Middle English min, from Old English min (“less; small, mean”), from Proto-West Germanic *minni, from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min (“less, lesser”), West Frisian min (“small, bad”), Dutch min (“less, small”), Low German minn (“small, low, lean”), German minder (“less”), Icelandic minna (“less”), Latin minus (“less”).

From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (“mind, intent, desire, love”), from Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“mind, memory”); and also from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (“memory, remembrance”); both from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”).

From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (“to bring to mind”), from minni (“memory”). See above.

Clipping of minoxidil.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “min”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details