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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more

UK /mɔː/ · US /moɹ/ determiner, adverb, pronoun, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of many much

Forms mores moring mored mo mo' moh moar moor Mòoré Moshi Mossi Morus

  1. determiner Additional; further. “If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.”
  2. determiner Bigger, stronger, or more valuable. “He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.”
  3. adverb To a greater degree or extent. “I like cake, but I like chocolate more.”
  4. adverb Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. “You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.”
  5. adverb (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
  6. adverb (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. “I was more better at English than you.”
  7. pronoun A greater number or quantity (of something). “We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.”
  8. pronoun An extra or additional quantity (of something). “There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.”
  9. noun (obsolete) A carrot; a parsnip.
  10. noun (dialectal) A root; stock.
  11. noun (dialectal) A plant; flower; shrub.
  12. verb (transitive) To root up.
  13. proper noun The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.
  14. proper noun A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
  15. proper noun A small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).

Synonyms

Thomas More Sir Thomas More more than to a greater extent

Antonyms

fewer less

Etymology

From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”).
Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Faroese and Icelandic meira (“more”).

From Middle English more, moore (“root”), from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-West Germanic *morhā, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“edible herb, tuber”).
Akin to Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German morha, moraha (“root of a plant or tree”) (German Möhre (“carrot”), Morchel (“mushroom, morel”)). More at morel.

From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.

Back-formation from mores.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  2. noun A root. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  3. adjective Greater; superior; increased; as: (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.
  4. adjective Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.

Etymology [AS. mor. See Moor a waste.]

Etymology [AS. more, moru; akin to G. möhre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.]

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

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