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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Grecian

/ˈɡɹiːʃn̩/ adjective, noun

Forms Grecians Græcian Graecian Greecian

  1. adjective (obsolete or poetic) Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).
  2. noun (obsolete) A native or inhabitant of Greece.
  3. noun A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.
  4. noun (obsolete) A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
  5. noun (obsolete) One well versed in the Greek language; a scholar of Greek.
  6. noun (obsolete, slang) An Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.

Synonyms

Hellenic Greek

Etymology

From Latin Graecia + -an. Compare Old French grecien and Middle English grecan, grecen, greken, grekin. By surface analysis, Greco- + -ian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. Grecian bend, among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. [Collog.] -- Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.
  2. noun A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
  3. noun A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist. Acts vi. 1.

Etymology [Cf. Greek.]

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