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

ross

UK /ɹɒs/ · US /ɹɔs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms rosses rossing rossed Rosse

  1. noun (US, dialect) The rough, scaly surface on the bark of trees.
  2. verb (US, dialect, transitive) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface.
  3. noun (Wales, Herefordshire) A swamp.
  4. proper noun An English and Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic derived from any of several places of that name, from Scottish Gaelic ros (“headland”).
  5. proper noun A surname from Cornish
  6. proper noun A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation]
  7. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of early 19th century and later usage.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pope County, Arkansas.
  9. proper noun A town in Marin County, California.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Calumet Township, Lake County, Indiana.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Audubon County, Iowa.

Synonyms

John Ross Sir John Ross James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross Sir Ronald Ross Nellie Ross Nellie Tayloe Ross Betsy Ross Betsy Griscom Ross

Etymology

From Welsh rhos.

* As a Scottish surname, from several places such as Roose in Cumbria or Roos in Yorkshire, both from Scottish Gaelic ros (“promontory”) or a Brythonic parallel of its source such as Welsh rhos (“moor, heath”). There were also several Norman families in Scotland who took their name from Rots in Calvados. Compare Rose, Rhodes.
* As an English surname, from Wrose in Shipley, with loss of initial w.
* As an English and German surname, from derivatives of the old Germanic root common in names *hrōþi (“fame”). Compare Rossell.
* As a Cornish surname, from several places in Cornwall deriving from ros (“heathland”), related to the above Celtic word meaning "heath" or "promontory." See Rouse.
* As a Jewish and German occupational surname for a breeder of horses, from the regional/poetic noun Ross (“horse”). Doublet of horse.
* Also as a Jewish surname, Americanized from Rose.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.
  2. verb To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark. [Local, U.S.]

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

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