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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halfway

UK /hɑːfˈweɪ/ · US /ˌhæfˈweɪ/ adverb, adjective, proper noun

Forms half-way

  1. adverb Half of the way between two points. “I was already halfway home when I missed my keyring.”
  2. adverb Moderately; somewhat.
  3. adjective Middle; midway; being in the middle of the way or distance. “John blacked out at the halfway point of the marathon.”
  4. proper noun A community in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  5. proper noun A community in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
  6. proper noun A village in County Cork, Ireland.
  7. proper noun A hamlet in Welford parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4068).
  8. proper noun An outer suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4381).
  9. proper noun A hamlet (Halfway Houses) in Upton Scudamore parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8748).
  10. proper noun An area (Halfwayhouse) in Glasgow, Scotland (given grid ref NS5463, not shown on maps)
  11. proper noun A suburb of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6559).

Synonyms

midway partway center middle

Etymology

From Middle English halfwey, from Old English healfweġ (“half-way”), equivalent to half- + way. Compare partway.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hoolfwais (“halfway”), Dutch halfweg (“halfway”), German halbwegs (“halfway”), Danish halvvejs (“halfway”), Swedish halvvägs (“halfway”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.
  2. adjective Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway. Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for baptism.

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