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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paris

/ˈpæɹɪs/ proper noun

Forms Paree Parish Parris Parrish Pares Parise Pariset Parez Paresse Parisot Pariseau Parizeau de Paris Parizot Parizet

  1. proper noun The capital and largest city of France.
  2. proper noun A department of Île-de-France, France.
  3. proper noun (metonymic) The government of France.
  4. proper noun A hamlet in Jutland, Denmark.
  5. proper noun A hamlet in New Valley, Egypt.
  6. proper noun A former settlement in Yukon, Canada.
  7. proper noun A former settlement in Kiritimati, Kiribati.
  8. proper noun A city in Arkansas, United States and one of the two county seats of Logan County.
  9. proper noun (Greek mythology) A Trojan prince who eloped with Helen.
  10. proper noun A male given name from Ancient Greek, from the Trojan hero.
  11. proper noun A French surname originating as a patronymic, ultimately from Latin Patricius.
  12. proper noun An English surname of Celtic origin, a variant of Parris.
  13. proper noun A Belgian surname, a variant of Parys.
  14. proper noun A Sicilian surname, a variant of Parigi.
  15. proper noun A Spanish surname, a variant of Aparicio.

Synonyms

City of Light French capital capital of France genus Paris

Etymology

From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.
  2. noun The chief city of France. Paris green. See under Green, n. -- Paris white (Chem.), purified chalk used as a pigment; whiting; Spanish white.

Etymology [From Paris, the son of Priam.]

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