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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northern

UK /ˈnɔː.ðən/ · US /ˈnɔɹ.ðɚn/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms northernmost northerns

  1. adjective Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north; northerly.
  2. adjective (of a wind) Blowing from the north; northerly.
  3. adjective (UK) Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised) “Les Dawson was a famous northern comedian.”
  4. noun An inhabitant of the northern regions; a northerner.
  5. noun (fishing) The northern pike.
  6. noun A film or other dramatic work set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the north of North America, primarily in western Canada but also in Alaska, often with a Mountie as the protagonist.
  7. adjective (UK) Characteristic of the North of England (the North) (usually capitalised). “Les Dawson was a famous Northern comedian.”
  8. adjective (US) Characteristic of the northern part of the United States (the North) (usually capitalised). “She's a Northern girl, so she had to ask what hush puppies and mudbugs are. We were happy to serve her the answer on a platter!”
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun The Northern Line of the London Underground.
  11. proper noun (US, historical) Any of several former railroads called the Northern Railroad in the 19th century. “We don't move any freight on the Northern anymore.”
  12. noun (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement. “It takes something big, like a Northern, to pull a train of this size.”
  13. noun (Canada) A genre of fiction focusing on the untamed northern territory of Canada and sometimes Alaska, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “I decided to kick back and lose myself in a good Northern for a while.”

Synonyms

boreal septentrional Northern Pacific northerly

Antonyms

austral meridional southern

Etymology

From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordrōni and Old Norse norrœnn.
Morphologically north + -ern.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
  2. adjective In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. (Zoöl.) See Loon.

Etymology [AS. noredherne.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “northern” (best matches first).

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