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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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morris

UK /ˈmɒɹɪs/ · US /ˈmɔɹɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms morrises morrising morrised

  1. noun (weaponry) A type of pike.
  2. noun A morris dance.
  3. verb To perform morris dancing.
  4. noun (obsolete) The young of the conger eel or similar fish, originally thought to be a separate species.
  5. proper noun A male given name from Old French, a medieval form of French Maurice.
  6. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  7. proper noun An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
  8. proper noun A surname from Irish, an anglicization of Irish Ó Muirghis, from Ó (“descendant”) and Muirghis (“of Maurice”).
  9. proper noun A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic], an anglicization of Welsh Meurig (“Maurice”).
  10. proper noun A town in Manitoba, Canada; named for Canadian politician Alexander Morris.
  11. proper noun A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Morris No. 312.
  12. proper noun A town in Jefferson County, Alabama; named for early pioneer Mae Morris.

Synonyms

morris dance Esther Morris Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris William Morris Robert Morris Gouverneur Morris

Etymology

From Moorish.

From Morris, the surname of its discoverer.

* The surname has converged from several origins; see Morris.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.
  2. noun A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.
  3. noun A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish.

Etymology [Sp. morisco Moorish, fr. Moro a Moor: cf. F. moresque, It. moresca.]

Etymology [So called from its discoverer.]

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