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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“Babylonians” is a form of

Babylonian

UK /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/ · US /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Babylonians

  1. adjective (historical) Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire.
  2. adjective (obsolete, derogatory) Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).
  3. adjective (figurative) Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. .
  4. noun An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
  5. noun An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.
  6. noun An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
  7. proper noun A later form of the Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia from 1950 BCE to 100 CE.

Synonyms

Babylonic

Etymology

From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
  2. noun An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
  3. noun An astrologer; --so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.

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