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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Macedonia

UK /ˌmæs.əˈdəʊ.nɪ.ə/ · US /ˌmæs.əˈdoʊ.ni.ə/ proper noun

Forms macedonias

  1. proper noun A geographic region in Southeastern Europe in the Balkans which includes the Republic of North Macedonia, the region of Macedonia in Greece, the Pirin region of Bulgaria, and small parts of Albania and Serbia.
  2. proper noun (historical) An ancient Greek kingdom in Southeastern Europe in the Balkans, located to the north of Thessaly, comprising the Greek city of Thessaloniki and its surroundings.
  3. proper noun Former name of North Macedonia: a country in Southeastern Europe in the Balkans.
  4. proper noun A geographic region and former administrative region of Greece, comprising the regions of West Macedonia, Central Macedonia and the East Macedonia part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace.
  5. proper noun A geographic region in southwestern Bulgaria; in full, Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia.
  6. proper noun (historical) A former constituent republic of Yugoslavia.
  7. proper noun (historical) A former province of the Roman Empire.

Synonyms

Macedon Greater Macedonia Vardaska former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia FYROM Macedonia-Skopje Monkeydonia New Macedonia Northern Macedonia North Macedonia Republic of Macedonia Republic of Northern Macedonia Republic of North Macedonia Socialist Republic of Macedonia Vardar Macedonia Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Aegean Macedonia Greek Macedonia Southern Macedonia South Macedonia Makedonija

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Μακεδονία (Makedonía, “Macedonia”), from μακεδονία (makedonía, “highland”), from μακεδνός (makednós, “high, tall”). Doublet of macedoine.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “Macedonia”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details