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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portage

/ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms portages portaging portaged

  1. noun An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
  2. noun The route used for such carrying.
  3. noun A charge made for carrying something.
  4. noun Carrying capacity; tonnage.
  5. noun The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
  6. noun A porthole.
  7. verb (nautical, transitive) To carry a boat overland.
  8. proper noun A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  9. proper noun A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
  10. proper noun A ghost town and former settlement in Alaska, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1964.
  11. proper noun A city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana.
  12. proper noun A village in the town of Portage Lake, Aroostook County, Maine.
  13. proper noun A city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
  14. proper noun A town in Livingston County, New York.
  15. proper noun A village in Wood County, Ohio.

Etymology

From Middle English portage, borrowed from Middle French portage, from Old French portage, from Early Medieval Latin portāticum. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -age.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A porthole. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. noun The act of carrying or transporting.
  3. noun The price of carriage; porterage. Bp. Fell.
  4. verb To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.

Etymology [From 2d Port.]

Etymology [3d Port.]

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