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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oblivion

/əˈblɪviːən/ noun, verb

Forms oblivions oblivioning oblivioned

  1. noun The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead. “He regularly drank himself into oblivion.”
  2. noun The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland. “Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now.”
  3. noun A form of purgatory.
  4. noun (obsolete) Amnesty.
  5. verb (transitive) To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.

Synonyms

forgetness limbo obliviousness

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English oblivion, from Anglo-Norman oblivion, from Latin oblīviō (“forgetfulness”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.
  2. noun Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion. Sir J. Davies.

Etymology [L. oblivio, akin to oblivisci to forget: cf. OF. oblivion.]

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

Sanskrit

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