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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counterpart

UK /ˈkaʊntəˌpɑːt/ · US /ˈkaʊntɚˌpɑɹt/ noun, verb

Forms counterparts counterparting counterparted

  1. noun Either of two parts that fit together or otherwise complement one another. “Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly.”
  2. noun (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
  3. noun One who or that which resembles another.
  4. noun One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics. “Her French counterpart attended the meeting via video call.”
  5. noun (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
  6. verb (transitive) To counterbalance.

Synonyms

complement mate opposite number counterparty opponent homolog homotype equivalent partner vis-à-vis parallel similitude twin

Etymology

From Middle English conterpart, countre parte (“duplicate of a legal document”), equivalent to counter- + part. Compare Old French contrepartie, itself from contre (“facing, opposite”) (from Latin contra (“against”)) + partie (“copy of a person or thing”) (originally past participle of partīre (“to divide”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.
  2. noun One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.

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

Sanskrit

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

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