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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Argive

UK /ˈɑːɡaɪv/ · US /ˈɑɹɡaɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms Argives

  1. adjective (Ancient Greece) Of, from or pertaining to Argos.
  2. adjective (Ancient Greece, loosely) Greek.
  3. noun (Ancient Greece) An inhabitant of Argos.
  4. noun (Ancient Greece, poetic) In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general.

Synonyms

Argot

Etymology

From Latin Argīvus, from Ancient Greek Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece.
  2. adjective A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.

Etymology [L. Argivus, fr. Argos, Argi.]

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