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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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portmanteau

UK /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/ · US /pɔɹtˈmæn.toʊ/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms portmanteaus portmanteaux portmanteauing portmanteaued portmanteau'd

  1. noun A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
  2. noun (linguistics) A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning.
  3. noun A portmanteau film.
  4. noun (Australia, dated) A schoolbag.
  5. noun (archaic) A hook on which to hang clothing.
  6. adjective (attributive, linguistics) Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
  7. verb (transitive) To create a portmanteau word.

Synonyms

portmanteau word blend blend word lexical blend amalgamation brunch word frankenword portmantologism telescope word port school port Gladstone Gladstone bag

Etymology

From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (etymology). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.

Etymology [F. porte-manteau; porter to carry + manteau a cloak, mantle. See Port to carry, and Mantle.]

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