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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election

/ɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/ noun

Forms elections

  1. noun A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote. “The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.”
  2. noun The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote. “The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.”
  3. noun An option that is selected. “W-4 election”
  4. noun (archaic) Any conscious choice.
  5. noun (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
  6. noun (obsolete) Those who are elected.

Synonyms

chosenness

Etymology

From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō (“choice, selection”), from ēligō (“to pluck out, to choose”). Equivalent to elect + -ion. Displaced native Old English cyre (“choice, free will, election”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of choosing; choice; selection.
  2. noun The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

Etymology [F. élection, L. electio, fr. eligere to choose out. See Elect, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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