Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

found

/ˈfaʊ̯nd/ noun, verb

Also a form of find

Forms founds founding founded foundest foundedst foundeth

noun Food and lodging; board.
verb To start (an institution or organization).
verb To begin building.
verb To use as a foundation; to base.
verb To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
verb To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
noun (glassblowing) The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.
noun A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

Synonyms

See find.

From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund.

From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre.

verb To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. "Whereof to found their engines." Milton.
noun A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
verb To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
verb To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.

Etymology [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]

Etymology [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See 1st Bottom, and cf. Founder, v. i., Fund.]

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

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