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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pregnant

/ˈpɹɛɡnənt/ adjective, noun

Forms pregnants prægnant pregnaunt

  1. adjective (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body. “I went to the doctor and, guess what, I’m five weeks pregnant!”
  2. adjective (sometimes proscribed) Of a couple: expecting a baby together. “We are pregnant.”
  3. adjective (comparable) Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc. “a pregnant pause”
  4. adjective (poetic) Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
  5. adjective Pervaded by something, usually sth intangible. “The operations center was pregnant with anxiety.”
  6. adjective (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
  7. adjective (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.
  8. noun (colloquial) A pregnant person.
  9. adjective (now rare) Compelling; clear, evident.

Synonyms

meaningful significant expecting expecting a baby expectant gravid with child fertilized gone eating for two having a bun in the oven in the family way knocked up preggers up the duff up the spout in an interesting condition big carrying child-great meaning fraught

Antonyms

impregnant nonpregnant pseudopregnant unpregnant

Etymology

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").

Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
  2. adjective Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." Prynne. " A pregnant brevity." E. Everett.
  3. noun A pregnant woman. [R.] Dunglison.
  4. adjective Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

Etymology [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. prégnant. See Gender, 2d Kin.]

Etymology [F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.]

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

Sanskrit

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