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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Gentile

/ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/ noun, adjective

Forms Gentiles

  1. noun (Mormonism) A non-Mormon person (including Jews).
  2. adjective Non-Jewish.
  3. adjective Heathen, pagan.
  4. adjective (Mormonism) Non-Mormon.
  5. adjective Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.
  6. adjective Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.
  7. adjective (grammar) Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.
  8. noun (Judaism) A non-Jewish person.
  9. noun (Mormonism) A non-Mormon person.
  10. noun (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

Synonyms

non-Jewish goyish non-Jew goy heathen pagan infidel

Etymology

From French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), from gēns (“clan, tribe”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”).

Borrowed from French gentil (“gentile”), from Latin gentīlis (“of or belonging to the same people or nation”), morphologically from gēns (“clan; tribe; people, family”) + adjective suffix -īlis (“-ile”). Doublet of gentle, genteel, jaunty, and Gentoo. See also gens, gender, genus, and generation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
  2. adjective Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.
  3. adjective Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.

Etymology [L. gentilis belonging to the same clan, stock, race, people, or nation; in opposition to Roman, a foreigner; in opposition to Jew or Christian, a heathen: cf. F. gentil. See Gentle, a.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “gentile” (best matches first).