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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yea

/jeɪ/ adverb, conjunction, interjection, noun, proper noun

Also a form of yay yeah

Forms yeas

  1. adverb Yes, indeed.
  2. adverb (Midwestern US) Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture by way of measurement).
  3. conjunction (archaic) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
  4. interjection (Southern US, Western US, African-American Vernacular) Yeah, right, yes.
  5. noun An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
  6. proper noun A town in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms

aye yep yes yup yeah yigh

Antonyms

nay no

Etymology

From Middle English ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old English ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-West Germanic *jā.
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular development of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language, probably from association with the antonym nay.

From yeah.

See yay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
  2. adverb More than this; not only so, but; --used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.
  3. noun An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.

Etymology [OE. ye, ya, ýe, ýa, AS. geá; akin to OFries. g, i, OS., D., OHG., G., Dan. & Sw. ja, Icel, ja, Goth. ja, jai, and probably to Gr. Yes.]

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