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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

pave

UK /ˈpæveɪ/ · US /pɑˈveɪ/ verb, noun

Forms paves paving paved pavéing pavéed

  1. verb (UK) To cover something with paving slabs.
  2. verb (Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
  4. noun A paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
  5. noun (jewelry) A setting of gemstones such that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.
  6. noun Any of various food items having a rectangular shape.
  7. verb To arrange gemstones in jewellery so that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.

Etymology

From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre (“to beat, strike, ram, tread down”).

Borrowed from Middle French pavé (“pavement”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The pavement. Nymphe du pavé ([A low euphemism.]
  2. verb To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
  3. verb Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.

Etymology [F., from paver to pave. See Pave.]

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