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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Georgian

UK /ˈd͡ʒɔːd͡ʒən/ · US /ˈd͡ʒɔɹd͡ʒən/ proper noun, noun, adjective

Forms Georgians Georgean

  1. proper noun The language of Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
  2. noun A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
  3. noun A native or resident of the state of Georgia in the United States of America.
  4. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
  5. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. state of Georgia or its Georgian English dialect.
  6. noun (historical) A British citizen during the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).
  7. noun (historical, rare) A British citizen during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936), especially a member of the Georgian Poetry movement or other artistic movements of the era.
  8. adjective Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830), sometimes also including the brief reign of William IV (1830–1837).
  9. adjective (poetry) Pertaining to a movement in lyric poetry during the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom (1910–1936). “Georgian Poetry”
  10. adjective (architecture) Of or relating to an architectural style of the period, marked by symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
  11. adjective Pertaining to or characteristic of German poet Stefan George (1868–1933).
  12. adjective Of or pertaining to Saint George.

Synonyms

Iberian Kartvelian goober goober-grabbler

Etymology

From Georgia + -n.

From George + -ian, possibly with influence from its Latin equivalent (as other regnal adjectives and nouns so derived), Geōrgius.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era.
  3. noun A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.
  4. noun British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.

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