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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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rhea

/ˈɹiːə/ noun, proper noun

Forms rheas

  1. noun A large flightless bird of the order Rheiformes, native to South America.
  2. noun Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a fiber-yielding plant.
  3. proper noun (Greek mythology) A Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.
  4. proper noun (astronomy) Saturn V, one of the moons of Saturn.
  5. proper noun (astronomy) The asteroid 577 Rhea.
  6. proper noun A female given name from Ancient Greek in occasional use.
  7. proper noun A surname.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Rhea's Mill Township, Washington County, Arkansas, United States.

Synonyms

nandu Pterocnemia pennata Rhea americana

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Rhea, from Ancient Greek Ῥέα (Rhéa, “the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology”).

From Assamese ৰিহা (riha, “rihā”).

From Ancient Greek Ῥέα (Rhéa).

Variant of Rea.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
  2. noun Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.

Etymology [L., a proper name.]

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