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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manx

/ˈmæŋks/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Manxes Manks

  1. adjective Manx (pertaining to the Isle of Man or to the Manx language)
  2. adjective manx (colloquial or slang) tailless (referring to the Manx cat)
  3. adjective Relating to the Isle of Man or its Celto-Germanic people.
  4. adjective Relating to the Manx language (also known as Manx Gaelic), a Gaelic language of the Goidelic family.
  5. adjective Relating to the Manx cat breed native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and rounded, cobby body.
  6. adjective (by extension) With a truncated or missing tail.
  7. noun A member or descendant of the Celto-Germanic people of the Isle of Man; a Manxman or Manxwoman.
  8. noun (collective, in the plural) the Manx; Manx people.
  9. noun A breed of domestic cat native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and rounded, cobby body.
  10. noun A cat of the Manx breed; a Manx cat.
  11. proper noun (uncountable) A Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man.

Synonyms

Manx cat Manx Gaelic

Etymology

Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn (“Isle of Man”), from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language. Manx cat (Zoöl.), a breed of domestic cats having a rudimentary tail, containing only about three vertebrae.
  2. noun The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.

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