Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

CIS

/sɪs/ adjective

Forms CISes

adjective (biology) Having two mutations on two genes on the same chromosome of a homologous pair.
adjective (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus nearer to the endoplasmic reticulum.
adjective (physical chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the same side of the bond.
adjective (physical chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are adjacent to each other. “The cis effect is the labilization of ligands which are cis to certain other ligands.”
adjective Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) nor non-binary.

Synonyms

Initialisms.

Likely originates from the false etymology asserting that cis is an initialism standing for comfortable in skin.

From Latin cis (“on this side (of), on the near or same side”). Doublet of he, it, here, hither, and hence.

Clipping of cisgender or cissexual, ultimately from Latin cis.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “CIS”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details