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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infant

/ˈɪn.fənt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms infants infanting infanted infaunt

  1. noun A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
  2. noun (law) A minor.
  3. noun (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.
  4. noun (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
  5. adjective (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.
  6. adjective (figurative, of a river) small, being near its source.
  7. verb (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

Synonyms

baby babe

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. C. Pitt.
  2. noun A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.
  4. adjective Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

Etymology [L. infans; pref. in- not +fari to speak: cf. F. enfant, whence OE. enfaunt. See Fame, and cf. Infante, Infanta.]

Etymology [Cf. F. enfanter.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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