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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ladino

UK /ləˈdiːnəʊ/ · US /ləˈdinoʊ/ noun, proper noun

Forms ladinos

  1. noun (US, Southeastern US, countable) A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.
  2. noun Trifolium repens (white clover).
  3. proper noun A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.
  4. noun A person in Latin America whose culture or ancestry is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American, especially one who speaks Spanish; a mestizo.
  5. proper noun A surname from Spanish.

Synonyms

Judezmo Judaeo-Spanish Djudeo-Espanyol mestizo Judeo-Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized; crafty”).

Borrowed from Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.

From Ladino לאדינו (ladino) (or from Spanish ladino), from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”). Doublet of Ladin and Latin.

Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; --so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge. Am. Cyc.

Etymology [Sp.]

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