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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

name

/neɪm/ noun, verb

Forms names naming named nyem

  1. noun Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. “I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.”
  2. noun A reputation.
  3. noun An abusive or insulting epithet. “Stop calling me names!”
  4. noun A person (or legal person).
  5. noun Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
  6. noun An authority; a behalf. “Halt in the name of the law!”
  7. noun (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
  8. noun (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
  9. verb (ditransitive) To give a name to. “One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.”
  10. verb (transitive) To mention, specify. “He named his demands.”
  11. verb (transitive) To identify as relevant or important “naming the problem”
  12. verb (transitive) To publicly implicate by name. “The painter was named as an accomplice.”
  13. verb (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of. “Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.”
  14. verb (transitive) To designate for a role. “My neighbor was named to the steering committee.”
  15. verb (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
  16. noun Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
  17. noun Synonym of name (“yam”).

Synonyms

proper name nomenclature bename nominate designate dub cush-cush greater yam gens figure public figure epithet call identify make appoint constitute mention advert bring up cite refer discover key key out distinguish describe list diagnose

Etymology

From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).
Germanic Cognates: Yola naame, name, naume (“name”), North Frisian Naam, neem, noome, nööm (“name”), Saterland Frisian Nome, Noome (“name”), West Frisian namme (“name”), Alemannic German Naame, namä, noame, nomu, nàmund (“name”), Cimbrian naamo, name, nåm (“name”), Dutch naam, name (“name”), German Nahme, Name (“name”), German Low German Naam (“name”), Luxembourgish Numm (“name”), Mòcheno nu'm (“name”), Vilamovian noma (“name”), Yiddish נאָמען (nomen, “name”), Danish, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål navn (“name”), Icelandic nafn (“name”), Norwegian Nynorsk nabn, namn (“name”), Swedish namn (“name”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 (namō, “name”).
Indo-European Cognates: Latin nōmen (“name”) (whence Spanish nombre (“name”)), Russian имя (imja, “name”), Ashkun nām (“name”), Kamkata-viri nom, num (“name”), Prasuni nom, nëmë (“name”), Waigali nām (“name”), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man, “name”).
Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi (“name”) and Hungarian név (“name”). Doublet of nomen, noun, and -onym. False cognate of Japanese 名前 (namae).

From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ġenamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *namōn (“to name”). Cognate with West Frisian neame (“to name; to mention”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.
  2. noun A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts.
  3. verb To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call.
  4. verb To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention.

Etymology [AS. nama; akin to D. naam, OS. & OHG. namo, G. name, Icel. nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn, Goth. namo, L. nomen (perh. influenced by noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know), Gr. 'o`mona, Scr. naman. sq. root267. Cf. Anonymous, Ignominy, Misnomer, Nominal, Noun.]

Etymology [AS. namian. See Name, n.]

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

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