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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homestead

/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms homesteads homesteading homesteaded

  1. noun A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
  2. noun (Canada, US) A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.
  3. noun The place that is one's home.
  4. noun (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
  5. noun (obsolete) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
  6. verb (transitive, intransitive) To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
  7. verb (transitive, political philosophy, chiefly libertarianism) To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.
  8. proper noun Former name of Indian Wells, Kern County, California.
  9. proper noun A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
  10. proper noun A census-designated place in Iowa County, Iowa.
  11. proper noun A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
  12. proper noun A township in Benzie County, Michigan.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Sugar Island Township, Chippewa County, Michigan.
  14. proper noun A village in Ray County, Missouri.
  15. proper noun A census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico.

Synonyms

farmstead quarter section

Etymology

From Middle English hamstede, hemstede (attested in placenames), from Old English hāmstede (“homestead”), from Proto-West Germanic *haimastadi (“homestead”). By surface analysis, home + stead. Cognate with Old Frisian hāmstede, hēmstede (“homestead”), Dutch heemstede (“homestead”), German Heimstatt, Heimstätte (“homestead”), Swedish hemstad (“homestead”), Old Icelandic heimstǫð (“homestead”). Doublet of Hampstead and Hempstead.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden.
  2. noun The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

Etymology [AS. hamstede.]

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