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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

thrum

/θɹʌm/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms thrums thrumming thrummed thrumb

  1. noun A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
  2. noun (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
  3. verb (transitive) To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking. “She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To make a monotonous drumming noise. “to thrum on a table”
  5. noun The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
  6. noun (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
  7. noun Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
  8. noun (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
  9. noun (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
  10. noun (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
  11. noun (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
  12. noun (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
  13. adjective Made of or woven from thrum.
  14. verb To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
  15. verb (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
  16. noun (obsolete, slang) A threepenny bit.

Synonyms

thrummer hum strum drum beat

Etymology

Imitative.

From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen.

Apparently a reduced form of the stem of threepenny/threepence through a sequence such as /ˈθrɛp(ə)n-/ > /ˈθrʊp(ə)m-/ > /ˈθrʊm-/ (> /ˈθɹʌm-/).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
  2. noun Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
  3. verb To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
  4. verb To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface. Totten.

Etymology [OE. thrum, throm; akin to OD. drom, D. dreum, G. trumm, lump, end, fragment, OHG. drum end, Icel. edge, brim, and L. terminus a limit, term. Cf. Term.]

Etymology [CF. Icel. to rattle, to thunder, and E. drum.]

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