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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nay

/neɪ/ adverb, interjection, noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of ney

Forms nays naying nayed

  1. adverb (archaic or regional, otherwise humorous) No.
  2. adverb (archaic or regional) Introducing a statement, without direct negation.
  3. adverb (archaic, otherwise humorous) Or rather, or should I say; moreover (introducing a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one). “His face was dirty, nay, filthy.”
  4. interjection (archaic) No.
  5. noun A vote against. “I vote nay, even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.”
  6. noun A person who voted against. “The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed; the nays have it.”
  7. noun (archaic) A denial; a refusal.
  8. verb (obsolete) To refuse.
  9. adjective (obsolete) Nary; not any “'Tis easy to do this experiment, though nay substance will do: we shall need a special one.”
  10. proper noun A surname.

Antonyms

aye yea

Etymology

From Middle English nai, nei, from Old Norse nei (“no”), contraction of ne (“not”) + ei (“ever”), itself from Proto-Germanic *nai (“never”), *nē (“not”). More at no.
The verb is from Middle English nayen (“to refuse, deny, gainsay”), from the interjection and adverb above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb No; --a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
  2. adverb Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; --used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
  3. noun Denial; refusal.
  4. noun a negative vote; one who votes in the negative. It is no nay, there is no denying it. [Obs.] haucer.

Etymology [Icel. nei; akin to E. no. See No, adv.]

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