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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nationality

/ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/ noun

Forms nationalities

  1. noun Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise. “By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality.”
  2. noun A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
  3. noun (now rare) National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
  4. noun (now rare) Nationalism or patriotism.
  5. noun (obsolete) Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.

Synonyms

affiliation allegiance ancestry citizenship descent enfranchisement ethnicity national status naturalization origin parentage race residence status clan confederation cultural group culture denomination ethnic group

Etymology

From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio (“nation, people”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.
  2. noun The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character.

Etymology [Cf. F. nationalité.]

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