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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nurture

/ˈnɜːɹ.t͡ʃəɹ/ noun, verb

Forms nurtures nurturing nurtured nouriture nutriture

  1. noun The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
  2. noun That which nourishes; food; diet.
  3. noun The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
  4. noun The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
  5. verb To nourish or nurse.
  6. verb (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

Synonyms

upbringing raising education training encourage foster feed grow culture cultivate promote raise rearing breeding bringing up fostering fosterage rear bring up parent nourish sustain

Antonyms

destroy hinder

Etymology

From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
  2. noun That which nourishes; food; diet. Spenser.
  3. verb To feed; to nourish.
  4. verb To educate; to bring or train up. He was nurtured where he had been born. Sir H. Wotton.

Etymology [OE. norture, noriture, OF. norriture, norreture, F. nourriture, fr. L. nutritura a nursing, suckling. See Nourish.]

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

Sanskrit

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