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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Nubian

/ˈnjʉːbiːən/ noun, adjective

Forms Nubians

  1. noun (informal) A person from the region of Nubia in modern Egypt and Sudan or a descendant of such a person.
  2. noun (historical) A person from any of the former states or provinces known as Nubia or a descendant of such a person.
  3. noun (literary, inexact) Synonym of person of color, any person with dark skin, particularly one from Africa.
  4. noun (obsolete, inexact) A black slave, particularly one from East Africa.
  5. noun (obsolete, inexact) An Ethiopian Christian, particularly a Tewahedo Orthodox Christian.
  6. noun (obsolete, rare) A horse from the region of Nubia or a descendant of such a horse.
  7. noun (obsolete, rare) A kind of black dress material.
  8. adjective Of or related to Nubia, its animals, or the Nubian people.
  9. adjective Of or related to the Nubian group of the Eastern Sudanic language family.
  10. adjective (literary) Synonym of African (“of or related to Africa or dark-skinned people of African descent”).

Synonyms

person of color any person with dark skin particularly one from Africa African

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Nubianus directly and via French nubien, from Nubia + -anus (“-an: forming adjectives”), from Nubae (“ancient Nubians”) + -ia (“-ia: forming place names”), from Koine Greek Νοῦβαι (Noûbai), q.v. Equivalent to Nubia + -an or Nuba + -ian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Nubia in Eastern Africa.
  2. adjective A native of Nubia.

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