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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eponym

/ˈɛpənɪm/ noun

Forms eponyms eponyme

  1. noun A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc. “The Greeks and Romans tended to credit nearly every location and ethnicity to a legendary eponym, Hellas to Hellen, Rome to Romulus, Egypt to Aegyptus, etc.”
  2. noun Something that is named after a person.
  3. noun (sometimes proscribed) A name taken from a person, a namesake toponym, term, etc. “Alexandria is an eponym, taken from its founder Alexander the Great.”
  4. noun (loosely, sometimes proscribed) A name or term derived from any proper noun, inclusive of places, brands, etc. “"Tangerine" is an eponym in reference to Tangier... The unflattering eponym "shanghai" derived from the behavior of American shippers, not the Chinese themselves...”
  5. noun (archaic) Synonym of epitome, a person taken as a symbol or quintessential representative of some trait, school, etc. “Rockefeller became the very eponym of wealth.”
  6. noun (archaic) Synonym of epithet, a distinguishing title. “It was only posthumously that Julian was distinguished with the eponym "Apostate".”

Synonyms

eponymist namesake deonym epitome epithet

Etymology

From Latin eponymus, from Ancient Greek ἐπώνῠμος (epṓnŭmos), from ἐπί (epí, “upon, epi-”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”) + -ος (-os, suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Equivalent to epi- + -nym.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.
  2. noun A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual.

Etymology [Cf. F. éponyme. See Eponymous.]

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