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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confederation

/kənfɛdəˈɹeɪʃən/ noun, proper noun

Forms confederations the Confederation confœderation

  1. noun A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
  2. noun The act of forming an alliance.
  3. proper noun In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, initially New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others.
  4. proper noun In Canada, the date of Confederation: July 1, 1867.
  5. proper noun In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada.
  6. proper noun In Newfoundland, the date of Confederation: March 31, 1949.

Synonyms

alliance confederacy federation league

Etymology

From Middle English confederacion, confideracion and Middle French confédération, from Old French confederacion, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. Doublet of confederacy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particulary of princes, nations, or states.
  2. noun The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy. Articles of confederation. See under Article.

Etymology [L. confoederatio: cf. F. confédération.]

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

Sanskrit

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