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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fertile

UK /ˈfɜːtaɪl/ · US /ˈfɝːtəl/ adjective, proper noun

  1. adjective Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
  2. adjective (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
  3. adjective Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful. “Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.”
  4. adjective Capable of developing past the egg stage.
  5. adjective (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor. “There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.”
  6. proper noun A city and township in Iowa.
  7. proper noun A city in Minnesota.

Synonyms

fat productive prolific pregnant batful luxuriant fruitful thriving yielding yieldly voluminous childing fecund rich

Antonyms

barren infertile sterile

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
  2. adjective (a) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.

Etymology [L. fertilis, fr. ferr to bear, produce: cf. F. fertile. See Bear to support.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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