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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Nazarene

/ˈnæzəɹiːn/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Nazarenes Natzrati Natzri Natzraya Nazaraean Nazareite Nazarite Nazorean

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Nazareth or its people.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene. “Holiness Today is a Nazarene magazine.”
  3. noun A person from Nazareth.
  4. noun (historical) A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes. “He was formerly with the sect of the Pharisees, but now he is a Nazarene.”
  5. noun (in Greek, Aramaic and Indian contexts) A Christian, a follower of Jesus.
  6. noun A member of the Church of the Nazarene. “I have been a Nazarene for several years; I joined the church in 1946.”
  7. proper noun (usually as “the Nazarene”) an epithet of Jesus Christ

Synonyms

Nasaree Nazaree Nazoree Nazorean Ebionite

Etymology

In the sense "person from Nazareth", from Ancient Greek Ναζαρηνός (Nazarēnós, “of Nazareth”), an ethnonym of Ναζαρέθ (Nazaréth). In the sense "a member of a certain sect", from Ancient Greek Ναζωραῖος (Nazōraîos), which may or may not be related. For a list of theories as to the further etymology of this word, see the Wikipedia article on ‘Nazarene’.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; --a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians.
  2. noun One of a sect of Judaizing Christians in the first and second centuries, who observed the laws of Moses, and held to certain heresies.

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