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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grandfather

UK /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/ · US /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/ noun, verb

Forms grandfathers grandfathering grandfathered

  1. noun A father of someone's parent.
  2. noun (by extension) A male forefather.
  3. noun (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
  4. verb (transitive) To be, or act as, a grandfather to.
  5. verb (transitive, chiefly US, law) To retain discontinued laws or rules for (an object, individual or organization previously affected by them).

Synonyms

highfather grandsire ayle elderfather eldfather goodsire gramp grampa gramps grampop gran granda grandad grandaddy granddad granddaddy grandpa grandpap grandpapa grandpappy

Antonyms

grandmother grandson abuela baba babcia babushka babusia babusya /babusia beldame bubbe eldermother eldmother

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather. The verb is derived from the noun.

From grandfather clause: see grandfather (etymology 1) and clause.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs.

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

Sanskrit

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

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