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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creole

UK /ˈkɹi.əʊl/ · US /ˈkɹioʊl/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms creoles

  1. noun (linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
  2. noun (jewelry) A style of hoop earrings with a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape.
  3. noun A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country.
  4. noun Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language.
  5. noun Someone of African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant).
  6. noun A native-born of Francophone descent in the Louisiana territory of any race, as opposed to Anglo-American settlers.
  7. adjective Pertaining to or characteristic of someone who is a Creole.
  8. adjective (of a person) That is a Creole; especially, born in a colonized country different from that of his or her ancestors.
  9. adjective Designating a creolized language.
  10. adjective (cooking) Prepared according to a cooking style developed in a Creole area, now especially that of Louisiana, characterised by a mixture of European and African influences.
  11. proper noun Any specific creole language, especially that of Haiti. “She grew up speaking Creole.”

Etymology

See Creole. Attested in English to refer to language from the 18th century.

Variously from French créole, from its source, Spanish criollo, and from its source, Portuguese crioulo, itself probably a diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from Latin creō (“to create, make, produce”). Doublet of Criollo, Crioulo, and Krio.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.

Etymology [F. cr, Sp. criollo, from an American negro word, perh. a corruption of a Sp. criadillo, dim. of criado servant, formerly also, child, fr. L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create. Cf. Create.]

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