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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stow

UK /stəʊ/ · US /stoʊ/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms stows stowing stowed

  1. noun (rare) A place, stead.
  2. verb To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
  3. verb To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
  4. verb To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
  5. verb To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.
  6. verb (obsolete, slang, transitive) To cease; to stop doing something.
  7. interjection (obsolete) A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4544).
  10. proper noun A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8881).
  11. proper noun The alternative spelling of Stowe in Shropshire, England.
  12. proper noun A small town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.
  13. proper noun A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
  14. proper noun A city in Summit County, Ohio, United States.

Etymology

From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”), German Stau (“congestion”). See also -stow.

From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
  2. verb To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.

Etymology [OE. stowen, fr. stowe a place, AS. stow; cf. Icel. eldstoa fireplace, hearth, OFries. sto, and E. stand. *163.]

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