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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expectant

/ɪkˈspɛktənt/ adjective, noun

Forms expectants

  1. adjective Marked by expectation. “the expectant hush before the performance”
  2. adjective Pregnant. “an expectant mother”
  3. adjective (medicine, dated) Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
  4. adjective (medicine) A triage classification for a patient in a mass casualty event with injuries so severe they are unlikely to survive even with maximum medical care. “do you agree the patient is expectant, or is there something we can do to save her?”
  5. noun A person who expects or awaits something.

Synonyms

anticipant anticipative big enceinte gravid great large heavy with child

Etymology

From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Waiting in expectation; looking for; (Med.)
  2. adjective waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment. Expectant estate (Law), an estate in expectancy. See under Expectancy.
  3. noun One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

Etymology [L.expectans, exspectans, p.pr. of expectare, exspectare: cf. F. expectant.]

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

Sanskrit

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