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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gnome

UK /ˈnəʊ̯m/ · US /ˈnoʊ̯m/ noun, proper noun, verb

Forms gnomes gnomae gnomai GNOME's GNOME'ing GNOME'ed

  1. noun (magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
  2. noun (mythology, fantasy) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually smaller than dwarves and more focused on engineering than mining.
  3. noun (informal, derogatory) A person of a small stature or misshapen features, or of a strange appearance.
  4. noun The mountain pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.
  5. noun A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.
  6. noun (astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
  7. noun (often derogatory) A banker, especially a secretive international one. “the gnomes of Zurich”
  8. noun A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
  9. proper noun An open-source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.
  10. verb (Unix, slang, typically passive voice) To unintentionally boot a GNOME desktop environment. “This new package got my system GNOME'd.”

Synonyms

garden gnome lawn gnome adage apothegm maxim paroemia proverb sententia dwarf

Etymology

From French gnome (“gnome”), from New Latin gnomus, used by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).

From Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē, “thought, opinion”), from the base of γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to know”).

English Multiplexed Information and Computing Service
English GNU Network Object Model Environmentacronym
Originally an acronym of GNU Network Object Model Environment, but this meaning is now officially deprecated.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
  2. noun A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

Etymology [F. gnome, prob. fr. Gr. i. e., of the treasures in the inner parts of the earth, or fr. Know.]

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