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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praenomen

UK /pɹiːˈnəʊ.mən/ · US /pɹiˈnoʊ.mən/ noun

Forms praenomens praenomina prænomen prenomen

  1. noun (Ancient Rome) A first name or given name; particularly the first of the tria nomina (three nouns) borne by free male Roman citizens. “Julius Caesar's praenomen was Gaius.”
  2. noun (historical) The throne name of a pharaoh, the fourth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title nswt-bjtj. “Tutankhamun's praenomen or throne name was Nebkheperrure, "Lord of the forms of Ra".”
  3. noun (zoology) The genus name in a binomial scientific name. “In the name Tyrannosaurus rex, "Tyrannosaurus" is the praenomen.”

Etymology

From Latin praenōmen, from prae- (“pre-: before”) + nōmen (“name, family name”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.

Etymology [L., fr. prae before + nomen name.]

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