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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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yeoman

UK /ˈjəʊ.mən/ · US /ˈjoʊ.mən/ noun, proper noun

Forms yeomen Yeomans Yeaman Youman

  1. noun (UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
  2. noun (US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
  3. noun (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
  4. noun A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
  5. noun A Yeoman Warder.
  6. noun A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
  7. noun (nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
  8. noun A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
  9. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
  10. proper noun A town in Jefferson Township, Carroll County, Indiana, United States.

Synonyms

yeoman of the guard beefeater

Etymology

From Middle English yeman, yoman, of disputed etymology:
* From Old English *ġēamann, from Proto-West Germanic *gawamann, variant of *gauwjamann (compare Old Frisian gāman (“villager”), Middle High German göuman (“peasant”)), compound of Proto-West Germanic *gawi (“shire, district”) (compare Old English -ġē, -ġēa (“district, region”) (in ælġē, Sūþriġēa), West Frisian gea, goa, Dutch gouw, German Gau) + *mann (“man”).
* A contraction of yong man; compare dialectal yeomath (“aftermath”) for a possible parallel.

From yeoman.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
  2. noun A servant; a retainer. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. yoman, ýeman, ýoman; of uncertain origin; perhaps the first, syllable is akin to OFries. ga district, region, G. gau, OHG. gewi, gouwi, Goth. gawi. sq. root100.]

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