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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innate

/ɪˈneɪt/ adjective, verb

Forms innates innating innated

  1. adjective Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
  2. adjective (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience. “innate ideas”
  3. adjective Instinctive; coming from instinct.
  4. adjective (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament. “an innate anther”
  5. verb (obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.

Synonyms

connate connatural congenital congenite genetous inborn inbred indigenous ingenite native natural to the manner born unlearned unlearnt unconditioned born

Antonyms

acquired implanted ingrafted inculcated infused learned

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in the 1420s, the verb in 1602; from Middle English innat(e) (“innate, inborn”), borrowed from Latin innātus (“inborn, innate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), perfect active participle of innāscor (“to be born in, grow up in”), from in- (“in, at on”) + nāscor (“to be born”); see natal, native. The verb is derived from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
  2. adjective Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas.
  3. verb To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] "The first innating cause." Marston.

Etymology [L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p.p. of nasci to be born. See Native.]

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

Sanskrit

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