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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sam

/ˈsæm/ verb, adverb, adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms sams samming sammed samen

  1. verb (transitive, UK dialectal) To assemble.
  2. verb (transitive, UK dialectal, of persons) To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).
  3. verb (transitive, UK dialectal, of things) To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.
  4. verb (intransitive, UK dialectal) To assemble; come together.
  5. verb (transitive, UK dialectal) To coagulate; curdle (milk).
  6. adverb (obsolete) Together
  7. adjective (dialectal) Half or imperfectly done.
  8. adjective (of food) Half-heated.
  9. noun (slang) Federal narcotics agent.
  10. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Samuel and Samson.
  11. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
  12. proper noun A surname from Cantonese, a romanization of 岑 (sam⁴) or 沈 (cam⁴ / zam³).
  13. proper noun A town in Alibori department, Benin.
  14. proper noun A town in Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso.
  15. proper noun A town in Bourzanga department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
  16. proper noun A village in Kongoussi department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
  17. proper noun A Trans-New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea.
  18. noun (UK, informal) Synonym of Dicky Sam (“a man from Liverpool”)

Synonyms

Dicky Sam surface-to-air missile

Etymology

From Middle English sammen, samnen, from Old English samnian, ġesamnian (“to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean”), from Proto-West Germanic *samnōn, from Proto-Germanic *samnōną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Cognate with Dutch zamelen (“to collect”), German sammeln (“to collect, gather”), Swedish samla (“to gather, collect”), Icelandic samna (“to gather, collect”). More at same.

From Middle English sām (“together”), from Old English samen (“together”), from Proto-West Germanic *saman, from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”).

From Middle English sam- (prefix), from Old English sam-, from Proto-Germanic *sēmi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēmi- (“half”). Related to semi- (via Latin).

Possibly from Uncle Sam.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Together. [Obs.] "All in that city sam." Spenser.

Etymology [AS. same. See Same, a.]

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