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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holland

UK /ˈhɒ.lənd/ · US /ˈhɑ.lənd/ noun, proper noun

Forms hollands

  1. noun (now historical) A type of linen cloth, originally from Holland.
  2. proper noun A historical province of the Netherlands.
  3. proper noun (metonymic, informal, proscribed, see usage notes) the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe).
  4. proper noun A historical kingdom in Europe.
  5. proper noun A historical county of the Holy Roman Empire.
  6. proper noun An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the Netherlands.
  7. proper noun A minor city in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
  9. proper noun A town in Cass Township, Dubois County, Indiana.
  10. proper noun A geographic area, one of the three traditional divisions of the county of Lincolnshire, England; also called the Parts of Holland.
  11. proper noun An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from any of the various places in England named Holland.

Synonyms

Netherlands The Netherlands Kingdom of The Netherlands Nederland

Etymology

After Holland, where it originally came from. From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”).

From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”). A popular but false etymology holds that it is derived from hol land (“hollow land”), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire). Doublet of balanda (“white, European” among Australian Aboriginals).

Most commonly derived from Old English hoh land (“spur land”). However, on the basis of the topographical inappropriateness of this name and early forms, Coates and Breeze (2000) argued that the first element is a Proto-Brythonic haiw- (“marsh, swamp”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

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