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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venetian

UK /vɪˈniːʃən/ · US /vəˈniʃən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms venetians

  1. adjective Of, from or relating to the city of Venice or surrounding province, Veneto region, northeastern Italy.
  2. adjective (historical) Of or related to the former republic of Venice and its colonial empire around the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean Seas.
  3. adjective (linguistics) Of or related to Venetan, the language spoken in Veneto, or more specifically the Venetian dialect spoken in the city itself.
  4. adjective (uncommon) Synonym of Venetic, of or related to Veneto, the Italian region around the city.
  5. adjective (historical, uncommon) Synonym of Venetic, of or related to the Veneti, either of two unrelated tribes of ancient Europe.
  6. adjective Synonym of Venusian, of or relating to the planet Venus.
  7. noun A native or inhabitant of the city of Venice or surrounding province, Veneto region, northeastern Italy.
  8. noun A native or inhabitant of the surrounding region of Veneto.
  9. noun (colloquial) A Venetian blind.
  10. noun (obsolete, in the plural) Galligaskins.
  11. noun (obsolete) Synonym of sequin (“type of gold coin”).
  12. proper noun The Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region of Italy.
  13. proper noun The form of this language spoken in Venice.

Synonyms

Venetic of or related to Veneto of or related to the Veneti either of two unrelated tribes of ancient Europe Venusian of or relating to the planet Venus sequin Venetan

Etymology

From Latin Venetianus (“Venetic; Venetian”), from Venetia (“lands of the Veneti; Venice, Veneto; Armorica”) + -anus (“-ian”), from Veneti + -ia. In the case of the Veneti of northern Brittany, derived from Gaulish Uenetoi (“the friendly ones, the kinsmen”), from Proto-Celtic *wenet, a derivation from *wenyā (“kindred”). In the case of the Veneti of northeastern Italy, of uncertain origin but presumably taken from a Venetic endonym, possibly Illyrian or Celtic. Equivalent to Veneto or Venetia + -ian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.
  2. noun A native or inhabitant of Venice.

Etymology [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.]

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