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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Aramaic

UK /ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/ · US /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/ proper noun, adjective, noun

Forms Aramaics

  1. proper noun The language of the Arameans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic.
  2. proper noun The language of the administration in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires from the seventh to fourth centuries BC: often called Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic.
  3. proper noun The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
  4. proper noun The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Galilean Aramaic.
  5. proper noun The language of Jewish targums, Midrash and the Talmuds, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
  6. proper noun The liturgical language of various Christian churches: often called Syriac.
  7. proper noun The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
  8. proper noun Any language of this family today called Neo-Aramaic, and separated by religion also Judeo-Aramaic and Syriac
  9. adjective Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.
  10. noun An Aramean.

Synonyms

Chaldee Aramaic script

Etymology

From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; --specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.
  2. adjective The Aramaic language.

Etymology [See Aramæan, a.]

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