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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abundant

/əˈbʌn.dənt/ adjective

Forms aboundant abundaunt habundaunt habundant

  1. adjective Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. “Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.”
  2. adjective Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
  3. adjective (mathematics) Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.

Synonyms

flush rife ample bountiful copious exuberant liberal overflowing plenteous plentiful profuse rich teeming lavish abounding aplenty brimming galore generous numerous

Antonyms

rare scarce deficient insufficient lacking scant uncommon adequate satisfactory sufficient

Etymology

First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abundāns, present participle of abundō (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; --followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6.

Etymology [OE. (h)abundant, aboundant, F. abondant, fr. L. abudans, p. pr. of abundare. See Abound.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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