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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highland

/ˈhaɪ.lənd/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms highlands

  1. noun A high area; land that is higher than surrounding areas. “The highlands of the Swiss Alps are home to many unique flowers.”
  2. adjective Of or related to Highland or the Highlands.
  3. proper noun A council area in north-west Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
  4. proper noun A former region of Scotland, created in 1975 from the counties of Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Ross and Cromarty, Caithness, Sutherland and parts of Argyll and Moray, abolished in 1996.
  5. proper noun A city in San Bernardino County, California.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland.
  7. proper noun A town in Sullivan County, New York.
  8. proper noun A number of townships in the United States, listed under Highland Township.

Synonyms

upland upcountry

Antonyms

lowland

Etymology

From Middle English hy laund, holond (“highland, upland”), from Old English hēahland (“highland”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauhaland, *hauhalandī; equivalent to high + land. Cognate with Scots hieland (“highland”), Dutch hoogland (“highland”), German Hochland (“highland”), Danish højland (“highland”), Swedish högland (“highland”).

Proprialization of highland.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland. Highland fling, a dance peculiar to the Scottish Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe.

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