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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nativity

/nəˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/ noun, proper noun

Forms nativities the Nativity

  1. noun (now dated) Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.
  2. noun (astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
  3. noun (also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
  4. noun (Christianity, also with capital initial) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.
  5. noun (also with capital initial) A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.
  6. noun (figuratively) Origin; founding.
  7. noun Place of origin; place to which a species is native.
  8. noun The quality of being native or innate.
  9. proper noun (Christianity) The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
  10. proper noun (by extension) Christmas.

Synonyms

birth nascency nascence Virgin Birth

Etymology

From Middle English nativite, from Anglo-Norman nativite, Middle French nativite, and their source, Latin nātīvitās (“birth”). By surface analysis, native + -ity. See also naïveté.

See nativity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc. Chaucer.
  2. noun A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.

Etymology [F. nativité, L. nativitas. See Native, and cf. NaïvetÉ.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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