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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Saxon

/ˈsæksən/ noun, proper noun, adjective

Forms Saxons

  1. noun A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
  2. noun A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
  3. noun (Ireland, Wales, poetic) An English/British person.
  4. noun (uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
  5. noun A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
  6. proper noun The language of the ancient Saxons.
  7. proper noun Upper Saxon, a dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
  10. proper noun A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
  12. proper noun A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
  13. proper noun A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
  14. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
  15. adjective Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
  16. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
  17. adjective (Ireland, Wales, poetic) Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.

Etymology

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais.
Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon. old Saxon, the saxon of the continent of Europe in the old form of the language, as shown particularly in the "Heliand", a metrical narration of the gospel history preserved in manuscripts of the 9th century.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language.

Etymology [l. Saxo, pl. Saxones, from the Saxon national name; cf. AS. pl. Seaxe, Seaxan, fr. seax a knife, a short sword, a dagger (akin to OHG. sahs, and perhaps to L. saxum rock, stone, knives being originally made of stone); and cf. G. Sachse, pl. Sachsen. Cf. Saxifrage.]

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