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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wizard

UK /ˈwɪzəd/ · US /ˈwɪzɚd/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms wizards wizarding wizarded

  1. noun Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices. “The wizard conjured up a large fireball.”
  2. noun One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field. “He was a financial wizard, capable of predicting the movements of the stock markets.”
  3. noun (computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user. “Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps.”
  4. noun (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon, or someone who has earned similar rights through gameplay; a user in wizard mode.
  5. noun (obsolete) A wise man; a sage.
  6. noun (4chan slang and incel slang, sometimes humorous) A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.
  7. noun (4chan slang) Someone who deepfakes pornographic material using content from social media (usually selfies of people) at the request of others.
  8. adjective (slang, dated, UK) Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).
  9. verb (intransitive) To practice wizardry.
  10. verb (transitive) To conjure.

Synonyms

conjurer mage magician magic user mystic sorcerer warlock witch expert genius prodigy assistant ace adept champion sensation maven mavin virtuoso hotshot star superstar whiz whizz wiz necromancer thaumaturge thaumaturgist charming magic

Etymology

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval English word with no known morphologically exact cognates in other Germanic languages; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún).
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme in which virgins who are typically friendless, shy outcasts and loners who don't fit in anywhere legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.
Compare typologically specialist (<< Latin speciō).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wise man; a sage. [Obs.]
  2. noun One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.
  3. adjective Enchanting; charming. Collins.
  4. adjective Haunted by wizards.

Etymology [Probably from wise + -ard.]

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