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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norman

UK /ˈnɔːmən/ · US /ˈnɔɹmən/ noun, proper noun, adjective

Forms normans Normen

  1. noun (nautical) A wooden bar, or iron pin.
  2. noun (slang) Synonym of normie (“a normal person”).
  3. noun A native or inhabitant of Normandy, France.
  4. noun A member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples who, in the 11th century, were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066.
  5. noun (rare) A Northman.
  6. noun Norman French in the Middle Ages.
  7. proper noun The langue d'oïl variant, closely related to the French of Île-de-France (i.e. Paris), spoken in Normandy and the Channel Islands, and was for several centuries the ruling language of England (see Anglo-Norman).
  8. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname [in turn originating as an ethnonym], for someone from Normandy, or for a Viking (Northman).
  9. proper noun A male given name from Old English used in the Middle Ages and revived in the 19th century.
  10. proper noun A town in Montgomery County, Arkansas.
  11. proper noun A township in Grundy County, Illinois.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Owen Township, Jackson County, Indiana.
  13. proper noun A township in Manistee County, Michigan.
  14. proper noun Two townships in Minnesota, in Pine County and Yellow Medicine County.
  15. adjective Of or pertaining to Normandy or its inhabitants (present or past).
  16. adjective Relating to the Norman language or the dialect of French spoken in Normandy.
  17. adjective Relating to the Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans after the Norman Conquest, characterized by large arches and heavy columns.
  18. adjective (design, attributive) Having a counterintuitive design that confuses users about proper operation; after Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things (1988). “Darn Norman door! I thought I had to push, but I actually had to pull.”

Synonyms

normie Jessye Norman Greg Norman Gregory John Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French normand.

From normal + -an, possibly influenced by the given name Norman.

From Middle English Norman, from Old English Norman (a variant of Norþman) and Old French Normant.
It is certain that the word is derived from the base of the Germanic words for north and the Germanic base of the words for man. However, given the frequent movement of Germanic groups especially into and out of Britain in the post-classical world, it is unclear in what tongue it came to be used first. In addition, the generally accepted meaning, a person from Normandy or one of the many French-speaking invaders to Britain, was used chiefly by Anglo-Norman and Old French, though it originally referred to any Scandinavian of the time. See also Northman.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wooden bar, or iron pin. W. C. Russell.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest. Norman style (Arch.), a style of architecture which arose in the tenth century, characterized by great massiveness, simplicity, and strength, with the use of the semicircular arch, heavy round columns, and a great variety of ornaments, among which the zigzag and spiral or cable-formed ornaments were prominent.
  3. noun A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.

Etymology [F. normand.]

Etymology [F. normand, of Scand. origin. See Northman, and cf. Norse.]

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