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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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mow

UK /ˈməʊ/ · US /ˈmoʊ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of mao

Forms mows mowing mowed mown

  1. verb (transitive) To cut down grass or crops. “He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.”
  2. verb (transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
  3. noun The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.). “The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!”
  4. noun (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
  5. noun (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face.
  6. verb To make grimaces, mock.
  7. noun (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
  8. noun The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
  9. verb (agriculture) To put into mows.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

haymow hayloft cut down pout mop

Etymology

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian mjo (“to mow”), Dutch maaien (“to mow”), German mähen (“to mow”), Luxembourgish méien (“to mow”), Danish meje (“to mow”), Swedish meja (“to mow”); see also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“to harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to mow”).

From Middle English mowe, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Doublet of moue ("pout").

From Middle English mowe, form Old English mūga, mūha, from Proto-West Germanic *mūgō, *mūhō, from Proto-Germanic *mūgô, *mūhō; perhaps connected to Ancient Greek μύκων (múkōn, “heap”). Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

* A variant of the surname Mao.
* A variant of the surnames Mowe or Maw.
* A Scottish habitational surname, from a place in the parish of Morebattle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.
  2. verb To make mouths.
  3. noun Same as Mew, a gull.
  4. verb May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.]

Etymology [AS. magan. See May, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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