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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immortal

UK /ɪˈmɔːtəl/ · US /ɪˈmɔɹtəl/ adjective, noun

Forms immortals

  1. adjective Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
  2. adjective Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered. “his immortal words”
  3. adjective Connected with or relating to immortality.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Exceedingly great; excessive; grievous.
  5. noun One who is not susceptible to death.
  6. noun A preeminent or exemplary person or thing; a paragon.
  7. noun (chess) A game of chess of especially high quality and entertainment, regarded as one of the best in history. “Anand's Immortal”
  8. noun A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.
  9. noun A member of the Académie française.
  10. noun (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon.

Synonyms

deathless everlasting undeadly undying immort wizard deity divinity god

Antonyms

mortal

Etymology

From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis), equivalent to im- + mortal. Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ.
The term referring to the Persian soldiers was a Calque of Ancient Greek ἀθάνατος (athánatos). One suggestion claimed that "Immortals" were named by the ancient Greeks because wounded soldiers were quickly replaced, while another claimed that it was because Greek informants confused Old Persian *anauša- (“immortal, without death”) with Old Persian *anūšiya- (“companion, royal bodyguard”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.
  2. adjective Connected with, or pertaining to immortability.
  3. noun One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. Bunyan.

Etymology [L. immortalis; pref. im- not + mortalis mortal: cf. F. immortel. See Mortal, and cf. Immortelle.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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