Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

moonfish

noun

Forms moonfishes

noun Any member of the species Mene maculata (razor moonfish), sole accepted, extant species of family Menidae, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area;
noun A platyfish, of either of Xiphophorus maculatus or X. variatus (family Poeciliidae).
noun Any member of most species of the genera Selene and Paraselene (family Carangidae).
noun Any member of the genus Lampris of opahs (family Lamprididae);
noun Any member of the species Mola mola (common mola or ocean sunfish; family Molidae).

Synonyms

From moon + fish, from the silvery color, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.

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