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

“rivers” is a form of

river

UK /ˈɹɪvə/ · US /ˈɹaɪvɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms rivers rivering rivered

  1. noun A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea. “Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.”
  2. noun Any large flow of a liquid in a single body. “a river of blood”
  3. noun (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
  4. noun (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
  5. verb (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game. “Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.”
  6. noun One who rives or splits.
  7. proper noun A unisex given name.
  8. proper noun (rare) A surname.
  9. proper noun A suburban village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2943).
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Tillington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9322).
  11. proper noun A township in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Synonyms

large small brooklet burnlet ree rill rith rithe rivulet runlet streamlet unsorted arroyo bayou beck bogan bogue bourn branch anabranch

Etymology

From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.

From river.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who rives or splits.
  2. noun A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
  3. noun Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil. River chub (Zoöl.), the hornyhead and allied species of fresh-water fishes.
  4. verb To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Etymology [F. rivère a river, LL. riparia river, bank of a river, fr. L. riparius belonging to a bank or shore, fr. ripa a bank or shore; of uncertain origin. Cf. Arrive, Riparian.]

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

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