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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indian

UK /ˈɪn.dɪ.ən/ · US /ˈɪn.di.ən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms indians

  1. adjective Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
  2. adjective (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
  3. adjective (proscribed) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
  4. adjective (Canada, US, of foods, proscribed) Made with Indian corn or maize. “Indian bread”
  5. adjective (chess) Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.
  6. noun (countable) A person from India.
  7. noun (countable, proscribed) An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, and Yupik).
  8. noun (countable, obsolete) An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands.
  9. noun A kind of marble (spherical toy) with colored bands on an opaque black base.
  10. proper noun (nonstandard) Any of the (unrelated) languages spoken by American Indians.
  11. proper noun (nonstandard, rare) Any language spoken by natives of India, especially Hindi.

Synonyms

East Indian Indic Hindian Desi Indish Native American Amerindian First Nation Asian Indian Red Indian First Nations person American Indian Amerind First American Indigenous American Indigenous North American Injun NDN red man redman Amerindian language American-Indian language Amerindic

Etymology

From Middle English Indien, from Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian or India + -an. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).

Webster’s 1913

  1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
  2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
  3. noun A native or inhabitant of India.
  4. noun One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; --so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.

Etymology [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. Hindoo.]

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