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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engender

UK /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/ · US /ɛnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/ verb

Forms engenders engendering engendered engendre ingender

  1. verb (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  2. verb (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
  3. verb (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
  4. verb (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
  5. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex.
  6. verb (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

Synonyms

father give birth mother sire birth spawn assemble beget conjure craft create generate invent make manufacture produce bring forth cause contrive ferment breed get

Etymology

From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]
  2. verb To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
  3. verb To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
  4. verb To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.

Etymology [F. engender, L. ingenerare; in + generare to beget. See Generate, and cf. Ingenerate.]

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

Sanskrit

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