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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.

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moot

/muːt/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms moots mooting mooted

  1. adjective (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. adjective (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. adjective (Canada, US, uncommon in the UK) Having no practical consequence or relevance. “That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.”
  4. noun A moot court.
  5. noun A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  6. noun (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
  7. noun (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  8. noun (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  9. noun (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  10. verb To bring up as a subject for debate.
  11. verb To discuss or debate.
  12. verb (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
  13. verb To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  14. verb (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.
  15. verb (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
  16. noun (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  17. noun (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk.
  18. noun (Australia) The vagina.
  19. noun (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
  20. verb (West Country) To take root and begin to grow.

Synonyms

irrelevant obsolete table propose bespeak talk about treat bechat confer betalk chat discuss talk over jabber say articulate babble blab chatter converse consider debate turn over deliberate arguable debatable disputable

Etymology

From Middle English mōt, ȝemōt, from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”). Cognate with Scots mut, mote (“meeting, assembly”), Low German Mööt (“meeting”), Moot (“meeting”), archaic Dutch (ge)moet (“meeting”), Danish møde (“meeting”), Swedish möte (“meeting”), Norwegian møte (“meeting”), Icelandic mót (“meeting, tournament, meet”). Related to meet. The adjective derives from the noun.

From Middle English moten (“to speak, talk, converse, discuss”), from Old English mōtian (“to speak, converse, discuss”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet, encounter”), a suffixed derivative of *mōtą (“meeting”). Related to etymology 1. See also mutter (which is a frequentative of moot).

Unknown.

From Dutch moot (“piece”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  3. verb To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
  4. verb Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

Etymology [OE. moten, motien, AS. motan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mot, gemot, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mot, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together.]

Etymology [AS. mot, gemot, a meeting; -- usually in comp.]

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