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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alien

/ˈeɪ.li.ən/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms aliens aliening aliened alyaunte aliene

  1. noun A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  2. noun A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
  3. noun (sometimes derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
  4. noun Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
  5. noun One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
  6. adjective Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign. “alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores”
  7. adjective Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. “principles alien to our religion”
  8. adjective Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
  9. verb (transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
  10. verb (law) To transfer the ownership of something.

Synonyms

fremd guest stranger outlander allotrious strange acquired additional adventitious ascititious extraneous foreign intrusive outlandish supplemental tramontane monstrous weird aberrant abnormal foreigner noncitizen unknown extraterrestrial being extraterrestrial alienate estrange disaffect exotic

Etymology

From Middle English alien, a borrowing from Old French alien, aliene, from Latin aliēnus (“belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”), from Latin alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Related to English else.

Borrowed from Mandarin 阿蓮 (Ālián) Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-lien².

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
  2. adjective Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; --followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
  3. noun A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
  4. noun One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

Etymology [OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else.]

Etymology [F. aliéner, L. alienare.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “alien” (best matches first).