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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prolific

/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/ adjective

Forms prolifick

  1. adjective Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
  2. adjective Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
  3. adjective (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
  4. adjective Copious; plentiful; abundant.

Synonyms

fecund fertile

Etymology

First use appears c. 1635. From French prolifique and its etymon Latin prōlificus, from prōlēs (“offspring”) + -ficus (“making”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; --applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; --usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
  2. adjective Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

Etymology [F. prolifique, fr. L. proles offspring (from pro for, forward + the root of alere to nourish) + facere to make. See Adult, Old, and Fact.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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