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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mummy

/ˈmʌm.i/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms mummies mummying mummied mommy mummie

  1. noun (countable) An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.
  2. noun (countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.
  3. noun (countable, by extension) Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body.
  4. noun (uncountable, now rare) A pulp.
  5. noun (uncountable, medicine, now historical) A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
  6. noun (uncountable, horticulture, obsolete) A sort of wax used in grafting.
  7. verb (transitive, dated) To mummify.
  8. noun (chiefly UK, India, New England, usually childish) mother.
  9. proper noun (colloquial, childish) One's mother.

Synonyms

mummy brown ma mama mamma mom momma mommy mammy mum

Etymology

From Middle English mummie, from Anglo-Norman mumie, from Middle French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, “wax”). Doublet of mumijo.

From mum + -y (diminutive suffix), related to mom and mommy, from mother.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction. Bacon.
  2. noun Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] Sir. J. Hill.
  3. verb To embalm; to mummify.

Etymology [F. momie; cf. Sp. & Pg. momia, It. mummia; all fr. Per. m, fr. m wax.]

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