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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metis

/meɪˈtiː/ noun, adjective, proper noun

  1. noun A person of mixed-race ancestry.
  2. noun (US) A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon.
  3. adjective Of mixed heritage
  4. adjective Of Métis heritage.
  5. noun (knowledge management) Practical intelligence; street smarts.
  6. proper noun (Canada) One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.
  7. noun (chiefly Canada, US) A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.
  8. noun (chiefly Canada) A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.
  9. proper noun (Greek mythology) A Titan who was the personification of wisdom, the first spouse of Zeus, and the mother of Athena
  10. proper noun (astronomy) A satellite of Jupiter.
  11. proper noun (astronomy) 9 Metis, a main belt asteroid.

Synonyms

Bois Brule coloured country born mixed-blood half-breed

Etymology

Borrowed from French métis, from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Akin to mestizo, which came from Spanish. More at Metis.

From Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis).

Borrowed from French métis, from Old French mestis, from Late Latin mixtīcius. Métis originally referred to Francophone and Cree-speaking descendants of the French-Catholic Red River Métis in Manitoba. Compare metis, mestizo, mustee, and Mestee.

From Ancient Greek Μῆτις (Mêtis) from Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “wisdom”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
  2. noun The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.

Etymology [F.; akin to Sp. mestizo. See Mestizo.]

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