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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nome

UK /nəʊm/ · US /noʊm/ noun, proper noun

Forms nomes

  1. noun A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece. “Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.”
  2. noun A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
  3. noun A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.
  4. noun (mathematics, obsolete) A term in an algebraic expression.
  5. noun (mathematics) A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.
  6. proper noun A city and seaport on the Seward Peninsula, West Alaska.
  7. proper noun A census area on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, which includes St. Lawrence Island.
  8. proper noun A cape in West Alaska.
  9. proper noun A river in Alaska.
  10. proper noun A minor city in Barnes County, North Dakota.
  11. proper noun A minor city in Jefferson County and Liberty County, Texas.
  12. proper noun A municipality in Telemark county, Norway, with its headquarters in Ulefoss.
  13. proper noun A rural locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Etymology

From French nome, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “district”), from νέμω (némō, “to divide”). Doublet of nomos.

From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos), from νέμω (némō, “to divide”). Differs from Etymology 1 in the position of Ancient Greek accent, though from the same root. Doublet of nomos and namus.

The sense "term" is from French -nôme, second element of binôme etc., again from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós) here in its sense "division". The name of the special function may be identical or may be an independent borrowing from the Greek.

Contraction.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.
  2. noun Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]
  3. noun See Term.
  4. of Nim. Chaucer.

Etymology [Gr. 1. A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy. 2. Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]

Etymology [Cf. Binomial.]

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