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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

Moravian

adjective, noun

Forms Moravians

  1. adjective Of, or pertaining to, Moravia or its people or culture.
  2. adjective Of, or pertaining to, the Moravian Church or its members.
  3. adjective Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Czech Republic, Europe.
  4. adjective Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Morava river in Serbia, Europe.
  5. noun (historical) A person from Moravia.
  6. noun A member of the Moravian Church.
  7. noun A group of Slavic dialects spoken in the Moravia region, considered by some linguists to compose a language separate from Czech.
  8. adjective Of, or pertaining to, the district and former province of Moray in Scotland or its people or culture.
  9. noun A person from Moray, either the district or the former province.

Synonyms

Morayvian

Etymology

Mediaeval Latin, Moravus from Moravia (also Murravia), Gaelic Moireabh, Early Irish Moreb or Muireb

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
  2. noun One of a religious sect called the United Brethern (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reëstablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.

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