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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

footman

noun, proper noun

Forms footmen Footmans

  1. noun (archaic) A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
  2. noun A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
  3. noun (historical) A servant who runs in front of his master's carriage.
  4. noun A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
  5. noun A moth of the family Arctiidae (or subfamily Arctiinae); so called from its livery-like colors.
  6. noun Especially, a common footman (Manulea lurideola).
  7. noun A bar that connects the treadle of a spinning wheel to the wheel.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

runner running footman footman moth

Etymology

From Middle English fotman, footman, foteman (“foot soldier, running footman”), from Old English *fōtman, *fōtmann (attested only as Old English fēþman, fēþemann (“footman”), equivalent to foot + man.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
  2. noun A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.

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

Sanskrit

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

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