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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fellowship

UK /ˈfɛl.ə(ʊ).ʃɪp/ · US /ˈfɛl.ə.ʃɪp/ noun, verb

Forms fellowships fellowshipping fellowshiping fellowshipped fellowshiped

  1. noun A company of people that share the same interest or aim. “The Fellowship of the Ring”
  2. noun (dated) Company, companions; a group of people or things following another.
  3. noun A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people. “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”
  4. noun (education) A merit-based scholarship.
  5. noun (education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.
  6. noun (medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
  7. noun (arithmetic, archaic) The proportional division of profit and loss among partners.
  8. verb (transitive) To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship. Now only in religious use. “The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.”
  9. verb (intransitive, now chiefly religious, especially in Canada, US) To join in fellowship; to associate with. “The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.”

Synonyms

postdoc family company companionship society

Etymology

From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschyp, equivalent to fellow + -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”), and Old Swedish fælaghskap (“fellowship”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state or relation of being or associate.
  2. noun Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
  3. verb (Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.
  4. companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades.

Etymology [Fellow + -ship.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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