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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assurance

/əˈʃʊɹəns/ noun

Forms assurances assuraunce

  1. noun The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
  2. noun The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
  3. noun Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
  4. noun Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity “His assurance is intolerable.”
  5. noun (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
  6. noun (insurance) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
  7. noun (law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
  8. noun (theology) Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

Synonyms

self-assurance confidence self-confidence authority sureness pledge

Etymology

From Middle English assuraunce, from Old French asseürance, from asseürer; as if assure + -ance.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
  2. noun The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.

Etymology [OE. assuraunce, F. assurance, fr. assurer. See Assure.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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