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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plenty

/ˈplɛnti/ noun, pronoun, adverb, determiner, adjective, proper noun

Forms plenties

  1. noun A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude; a great deal. “We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.”
  2. pronoun More than enough. “Acquire one of these and you'll have plenty of car for your money.”
  3. adverb More than sufficiently. “This office is plenty big enough for our needs.”
  4. adverb (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very. “She was plenty mad at him.”
  5. determiner much, enough “There'll be plenty time later for that”
  6. determiner many “Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.”
  7. adjective (obsolete) Plentiful.
  8. proper noun A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  9. proper noun A town in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
  10. proper noun A suburb of Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik, Victoria, Australia

Synonyms

abundance profusion plenteous plentifulness plenteousness plenitude plentitude batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap lot mass mess mickle mint mountain muckle passel peck pile pot quite a little raft sight slew spate

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman plent(é) + -y, from Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plēnitātem, accusative of plēnitās (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives replenish, plenary, complete, deplete, replete.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen.
  2. adjective Plentiful; abundant. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Etymology [OE. plentee, plente, OF. plenté, fr. L. plenitas, fr. plenus full. See Full, a., and cf. Complete.]

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

Sanskrit

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