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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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senna

/ˈsɛnə/ noun, proper noun

Forms sennas

  1. noun (countable) Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative.
  2. noun (uncountable) The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally.
  3. noun (medicine) Senna glycoside, a laxative.
  4. proper noun A surname from Italian.

Etymology

From Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “senna”).

Borrowed from Italian Senna; this surname is predominantly attested in Brazil, however it is not of Portuguese origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia.
  2. noun The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. Bladder senna.

Etymology [Cf. It. & Sp. sena, Pg. sene, F. séné; all fr. Ar. sana.]

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

Sanskrit

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