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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wade

/weɪd/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms wades wading waded Waide

  1. verb (intransitive) To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
  2. verb (intransitive) To progress with difficulty. “to wade through a dull book”
  3. verb (transitive) To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading. “wading swamps and rivers”
  4. verb (of the sun or moon) To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
  5. verb (intransitive) To enter recklessly. “to wade into a fight or a debate”
  6. noun An act of wading. “We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.”
  7. noun (colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.
  8. proper noun A topographic surname from Old English.
  9. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  10. proper noun A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
  11. proper noun A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
  12. proper noun A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
  13. proper noun A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
  15. proper noun Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County.

Synonyms

romanization system Virginia Wade

Etymology

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”).

From Old English wæd (“a ford”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.
  2. verb To go; to move forward. [Obs.]
  3. verb To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Milton.
  4. verb To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded .

Etymology [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.]

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