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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fountain

UK /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ · US [ˈfaʊn.tn̩] noun, verb, proper noun

Forms fountains fountaining fountained

  1. noun (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
  2. noun An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure. “His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.”
  3. noun The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
  4. noun A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
  5. noun (figurative) A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
  6. noun (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
  7. noun (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
  8. noun (US) A soda fountain.
  9. verb (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain. “Lava fountained from the volcano.”
  10. proper noun A ghost town in Mendocino County, California, United States.
  11. proper noun A city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, named after Fountain Creek (Arkansas River tributary).
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Bay County, Florida, United States.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Illinois, United States.
  14. proper noun A city in Fountain County, Indiana, United States, USA formerly known as Portland.
  15. proper noun A village in Mason County, Michigan, United States.
  16. proper noun A city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.
  17. proper noun A town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.

Synonyms

fount syke wellspring Fountaintown North Carolina spring outflow outpouring natural spring jet

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).

Topographic surname for someone who lived near a fountain, spring or well.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A spring of water issuing from the earth.
  2. noun An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.

Etymology [F. fontaine, LL. fontana, fr. L. fons, fontis. See 2d Fount.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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