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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Frisian

/ˈfɹɪʒ.ən/ proper noun, noun, adjective

Forms Frisians Friesic

  1. proper noun (specifically) The West Frisian (or Western Frisian) lect, spoken in the northern Netherlands.
  2. proper noun (specifically) Saterland Frisian, the last surviving dialect of the East Frisian lect, spoken in Northern Germany close to the Dutch border.
  3. proper noun (specifically) The North Frisian lect, spoken in northwestern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
  4. noun A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is native to the region of Frisia (which is in the Netherlands, northern Germany, and southern Denmark).
  5. noun A native or inhabitant of the Dutch province of Friesland.
  6. adjective Of, in or relating to the Frisian language or a Frisian language. “Because the instruction manual was Frisian, Yves couldn't read it.”
  7. adjective Of, from or relating to the region of Frisia: Either West Frisia (the Dutch province of Friesland); North Frisia (in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border); or East Frisia (in the German state of Lower Saxony, near the Dutch border).
  8. adjective Of or relating to people of Frisian descent.
  9. adjective (specifically) Of, from or relating to West Frisia, i.e. the Dutch province of Friesland

Etymology

From Middle English Frisoun, taken from Old French frison (“a Frisian”), itself derived from Latin Frīsiī (“Frisians”). Displaced native Old English Frīsa (“a Frisian”) whence modern English Frise; see the plural Frīsan for more.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.
  2. noun A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.

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