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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“fords” is a form of

ford

UK /fɔːd/ · US /fɔɹd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms fords fording forded foorth fforde

  1. noun A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
  2. noun A stream; a current.
  3. verb To cross a stream by walking through it.
  4. verb (by extension) To traverse any precarious environment.
  5. proper noun A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford.
  6. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  7. proper noun A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709).
  8. proper noun A hamlet in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080).
  9. proper noun A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656).
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150).
  11. proper noun A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829).
  12. proper noun A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155)
  13. noun A car, truck, tractor, or other vehicle of this make. “Their grandparents always drove Fords.”

Synonyms

water-splash John Ford Henry Ford II Edsel Bryant Ford Ford Madox Ford Ford Hermann Hueffer Gerald Ford Gerald R. Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford President Ford Henry Ford crossing fording

Etymology

From Middle English fōrd, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).
Doublet of firth, fjord, and fjard, all via Old Norse; and port, distantly via Latin. Cognate with Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord. See also forth and Persian پل (pol, “bridge”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A place in a river, or other water, where it may passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
  2. noun A stream; a current.
  3. verb To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.

Etymology [AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel. f bay, and to E. fare. Fare, v. i., and cf. Frith arm of the sea.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “ford” (best matches first).