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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miller

UK /ˈmɪləː/ · US /ˈmɪlɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms millers

  1. noun A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flourmill.
  2. noun (dated) A milling machine.
  3. noun Any of several moths that have powdery wings, especially Acronicta leporina and moths of the genus Agrotis.
  4. noun A floury-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus.
  5. noun (UK, naval slang, outdated) A rat.
  6. noun (informal or Appalachia) A moth.
  7. proper noun (countable) An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a miller.
  8. proper noun (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hancock County, Iowa.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Kansas.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Kentucky.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Clay Township, St. Clair County, Michigan.

Synonyms

Glenn Miller Alton Glenn Miller Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller Arthur Miller milling machine moth miller

Etymology

From Middle English myllere, mellere, from earlier mylnere, possibly from an Old English *mylnere, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnārī (“miller”), equivalent to mill + -er; cf. also Late Latin molīnārius (“miller”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Muller, Dutch mulder, molenaar, German Low German Möller, German Müller, Müllner, Danish møller, Norwegian Bokmål møller, Norwegian Nynorsk mylnar, møllar, Swedish mjölnare, Icelandic mylnari.
Compare also Middle English milward, mulward (“miller”), from Old English mylenweard (“miller”, literally “mill-keeper”) (> English Millward (surname)).

English surname, capitalization of miller. Doublet of Muller. Also compare Milner, Millward, Müller, Mueller, Mulder, Molenaar, Muenier, Molinaro, Molinero, Molnár, Mlinar, Mlynarczyk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
  2. noun A milling machine.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “miller”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details