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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roma

UK /ˈɹəʊmə/ · US /ˈɹoʊmə/ proper noun, noun, adjective

Also a form of rom Rome

Forms romas Rroma

  1. proper noun A nomadic people with origins in India, the Romani.
  2. proper noun A subgroup of the Romani people found primarily in Eastern Europe.
  3. proper noun A variety of the Romani language (or occasionally) the Romani macrolanguage.
  4. noun A Rom; a member of the Romani people.
  5. adjective Romani: of or pertaining to the Romani people.
  6. proper noun A town, the seat of the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia, from the Italian surname di Roma.
  7. proper noun A settlement in Maseru district, Lesotho.
  8. proper noun A town in Ascope province, La Libertad region, northern Peru.
  9. proper noun A commune in Botoșani County, Romania.
  10. proper noun A village in Valencia province, Valencia, Spain.
  11. proper noun A locality in central Gotland, Sweden.
  12. proper noun A city and border crossing point on the Rio Grande in Starr County, Texas, United States.
  13. proper noun A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.
  14. noun A variety of tomato.
  15. proper noun An Austronesian language of Indonesia.

Synonyms

Gypsy Gipsy Romany Rommany Romani Bohemian Rome Eternal City Italian capital capital of Italy

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani roma, plural of rom (“man, husband, Romani man”). The latter probably comes from Sanskrit डोम्ब (ḍomba, “lower-caste person working as a wandering musician”), from Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru, “drum”), which may have been borrowed from a Dravidian language. Folk etymology pointed to a legend that the ethnic group were an exiled people from Roman Imperial times.
The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.

From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome and Rum.

Compare Indonesian Bahasa Romang (“Roma language”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “roma”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details