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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nourish

/ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/ noun, verb

Forms nourishes nourishing nourished

  1. noun (obsolete) A nurse.
  2. verb (transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
  3. verb (transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
  4. verb (transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate “to nourish civility”
  5. verb (transitive) To cherish; to comfort.
  6. verb (transitive, of a person) To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
  7. verb (intransitive) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment. “This type of nourishes very well.”
  8. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To gain nourishment.

Synonyms

nurture sustain nutrify aliment

Etymology

From Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
  2. verb To support; to maintain.
  3. verb To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
  4. verb To gain nourishment. [R.] Bacon.

Etymology [OE. norisen, norischen, OF. nurir, nurrir, norir, F. norrir, fr. L. nutrire. Cf. Nurse, Nutriment, and see -ish.]

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

Sanskrit

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