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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

aboriginal

/ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms aboriginals

  1. adjective First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
  2. adjective Living in a land before colonization by foreigners.
  3. noun An animal or plant native to a region.
  4. adjective Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, or their languages.
  5. noun (potentially offensive) An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia or other land.
  6. proper noun Any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.

Synonyms

ancient autochthonous earliest endemic first indigenous native original primeval primitive primordial Aborigine Native American First Nations First Peoples Indian Eskimo Inuit Abo native Australian Australian Aborigine indigen indigene primal primaeval

Etymology

See Aboriginal.

From aborigine + -al, aborigine being from Latin ab origine (“from the beginning”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
  3. noun An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.
  4. noun An animal or a plant native to the region.

Etymology [See Aborigines.]

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

Sanskrit

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