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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alienation

/ˌeɪli.əˈneɪʃən/ noun

Forms alienations

  1. noun The act of alienating. “The alienation of that viewing demographic is a poor business decision.”
  2. noun The state of being alienated. “His alienation from his family means he has nowhere to go at Christmas.”
  3. noun Emotional isolation or dissociation, as from being separated from social connections or estranged from one's family or community; a feeling of being an outsider. “I didn't care about anything back then, not holidays or family or my career, I felt utter alienation from everything around me.”
  4. noun (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
  5. noun (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
  6. noun (Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes (e.g., under capitalism or feudalism).

Synonyms

estrangement disaffection

Etymology

From Middle English alienacioun, from Old French alienacion, from Latin aliēnātiōn(em).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
  2. noun A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.

Etymology [F. aliénation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate.]

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

Sanskrit

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