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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hun

/hʌn/ noun, proper noun

Forms huns

  1. noun (UK, slang) A woman perceived as basic, brash, working class and fond of alcohol.
  2. noun (slang) A woman involved in a multi-level marketing scheme, especially one who pushes it on social media.
  3. noun A grey partridge.
  4. noun A member of a nomadic tribe (the Huns) who invaded Europe in the fourth century from Central Asia.
  5. noun (figuratively) A vandal, a barbarian, an uncivilized destructive person.
  6. noun (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German.
  7. noun (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland) A Protestant.
  8. noun (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland) A Rangers Football Club supporter; an Orangeman.
  9. proper noun A surname from Khmer.

Synonyms

Fritz Jerry Kraut Prod Proddy orangie Orangeman Krauthead Boche

Etymology

Clipping of honey with pronunciation spelling.

Clipping of Hungarian partridge.

From Old English Hūnas, Hūne (both plural), from Late Latin Hunni, from Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), borrowed through Middle Iranian. Cognate with Old Norse húnir, Old High German Hunni. See also etymology of Xiongnu.
Compare Sogdian 𐼶𐼴𐼻 (xwn), Sanskrit हूण (hūṇa), and 匈奴 (OC *hoŋ-nâ) (c. 318 BCE) > *hɨoŋ-nɑ (Eastern Han), which Schuessler (2014:264) proposes to be transcription of foreign *Hŏna ~ Hŭna. More at Huns.
As a derogatory term for Germans popularized by Rudyard Kipling, reacting to Germany's proposal that the Royal Navy be used to collect debts from Venezuela.

Borrowed from Khmer ហ៊ុន (hun).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

Etymology [L. Hunni, also Chunni, and Chuni; cf. AS. H, H, OHG. H, G. Hunnen.]

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