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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Mexican

UK /ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n/ · US /ˈmɛksək(ə)n/ noun, adjective

Forms Mexicans

  1. noun (obsolete) A Mexica; an Aztec.
  2. noun (obsolete) The Nahuatl language.
  3. noun A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.
  4. noun The Mexican dialect of Spanish.
  5. noun (US, slang, offensive) A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country. “What kind of Mexican are you?”
  6. noun (Australia, slang, chiefly New South Wales, Queensland) A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria).
  7. noun (Australia, slang, Queensland) A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
  8. noun (uncountable) Mexican or Mexican-derived cuisine; whether traditional Mexican food or Tex-Mex, etc. “I'm hungry. Want to go out for Mexican?”
  9. adjective (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
  10. adjective (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
  11. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico.

Synonyms

Mexica Aztec el goblino la goblina Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mexicano, from Nahuatl mēxihcah plural of mēxihcatl (“a Mexica”) + -ano (“-an”). By surface analysis, Mexico + -an. Doublet of Mexicano.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.
  2. adjective A native or inhabitant of Mexico. Mexican poppy (Bot.), a tropical American herb of the Poppy family (Argemone Mexicana) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms.

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