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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constituent

/kənˈstɪtjuənt/ adjective, noun

Forms constituents

  1. adjective Being a part or component of a whole.
  2. adjective Constitutive or constituting.
  3. adjective (politics or law) Authorized to make a constitution. “the Constituent Assembly”
  4. noun A part, or component of a whole.
  5. noun A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
  6. noun A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
  7. noun (politics) A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
  8. noun (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
  9. noun (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

Synonyms

component element part portion component part grammatical constituent factor ingredient constitutional constitutive organic

Etymology

From Latin cōnstituēns, present participle of cōnstituō (“to establish”), from com- (“together”) + statuō (“to set, place, establish”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
  2. adjective Having the power of electing or appointing.
  3. noun The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
  4. noun That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.

Etymology [L. constituens, -entis, p.pr. See Constitute.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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