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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“pisseth” is a form of

piss

/pɪs/ noun, verb, interjection

Forms pisses pissing pissed

  1. noun (usually uncountable) Urine. “This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.”
  2. noun (countable) The act of urinating. “I'm desperate for a piss!”
  3. noun (countable and uncountable) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
  4. noun (attributive) An intensifier. “piss-poor”
  5. verb (intransitive) To urinate. “When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.”
  6. verb (transitive) To discharge as or with the urine. “If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.”
  7. verb (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, transitive, slang) To achieve easily.
  8. verb (ambitransitive, slang) To rain heavily.
  9. interjection (mildly vulgar) Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.

Synonyms

urinate urine pee piddle weewee water peeing pissing make puddle micturate pee-pee make water relieve oneself take a leak spend a penny wee wee-wee pass water

Etymology

From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”). Displaced Old English miċġe (“urine”) and mīgan (“to urinate”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To discharge urine, to urinate. Shak.
  2. noun Urine.

Etymology [OE. pissen, F. pisser; akin to It. pisciare, D. & G. pissen, Dan. pisse, Icel. pissa.]

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