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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wagon

/ˈwæɡən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms wagons wagoning wagonning wagoned wagonned the Wagon waggon

  1. noun A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry goods (or sometimes people).
  2. noun (US, chiefly New England) A shopping cart.
  3. noun (rail transport) A vehicle (wagon) designed to transport goods or people on railway.
  4. noun (dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper.
  5. noun (by extension) An obnoxious woman; a bitch; a cow.
  6. noun (mathematics) A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
  7. noun (slang) Buttocks.
  8. verb (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
  9. verb (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon.
  10. proper noun (astronomy) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.

Synonyms

railroad car car railway wagon railway carriage carriage railtruck truck coach estate 304 alley cat alleycat amorette amoret amorosa article Athanasian wench blowsabella bop chippy waggon police van police wagon paddy wagon patrol wagon black Maria Big Dipper Dipper Plough Charles's Wain

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Generally displaced native cognate wain, from Old English wæġn, of which it is a doublet. Related also to way, weigh.
Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Derived either as a synonym of Wain, i.e. Charles' Wain, or directly from the wagonlike shape of the constellation. Compare also the synonym Northern Waggoner.
See wagon and wain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
  2. noun A freight car on a railway. [Eng.]
  3. verb To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
  4. verb To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Etymology [D. wagen. sq. root136. See Wain.]

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