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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dividend

/ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/ noun, verb

Forms dividends dividending dividended

  1. noun (finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).
  2. noun (arithmetic) A number or expression that is to be divided by another. “In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.”
  3. noun (figuratively) Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.) “His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.”
  4. verb (transitive) To pay out a dividend.

Etymology

From Middle French dividende, from Latin dīvidendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of dīvidō (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide + -end.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; --applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.
  2. noun A number or quantity which is to be divided.

Etymology [L. dividendum thing to be divided, neut. of the gerundive of dividere: cf. F. dividende.]

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

Sanskrit

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