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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vegetarian

UK /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/ · US /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/ noun, adjective

Forms vegetarians

  1. noun A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
  2. noun An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).
  4. adjective Without meat.
  5. adjective Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
  6. adjective That does not eat meat. “I have a vegetarian brother”

Synonyms

herbivore Pythagorean plant-based

Antonyms

nonvegetarian

Etymology

From vegetable + -arian; popularized following the foundation of the British Vegetarian Society in 1847.

From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society. (Alternatively, it may derive from Latin vegetus + -arian.)

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “vegetarian” (best matches first).