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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prince

/pɹɪns/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms princes princing princed

  1. noun (now archaic or historical) A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.
  2. noun (obsolete) A female monarch.
  3. noun Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. “He is a prince among men.”
  4. noun The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
  5. noun A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
  6. noun A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire. “Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.”
  7. noun A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
  8. noun The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
  9. verb (intransitive, rare, often followed by dummy subject it) To behave or act like a prince.
  10. verb (transitive, rare) To transform (someone) into a prince.
  11. noun The title of a prince.
  12. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who acted like a prince, or played the part in a pageant, or served in the household of a prince.
  13. proper noun A male given name from English in occasional use. “Prince Fielder hit another home run today.”
  14. proper noun A township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
  15. proper noun A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Meota No. 468, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  16. proper noun A census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.

Etymology

From Middle English prince, from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin prī̆nceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Cognate with Old English fruma (“prince, ruler”). Doublet of princeps and principe.
Displaced English atheling (“prince”), from Middle English, from Old English æþeling (“prince”). Displaced also Middle English kinebarn (from cynebearn, literally “kinbairn”, i.e. “royal child”), alder < ealdor (“elder, leader, chief, prince, king”), and drighten < dryhten (“lord”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; --originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif (Rev. i. 5).
  2. noun The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. Shak.
  3. verb To play the prince. [R.] Shak.

Etymology [F., from L. princeps, -cipis, the first, chief; primus first + capere to take. See Prime, a., and Capacious.]

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

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