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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sentient

UK /ˈsɛn.ti.ənt/ · US /ˈsɛn.ʃi.ənt/ adjective, noun

Forms sentients

  1. adjective Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling. “Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.”
  2. adjective Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
  3. adjective (loosely, chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
  4. noun Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
  5. noun (loosely, chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.

Synonyms

aware sensate sapient intelligent self-aware intelligence sophont animate

Antonyms

insensate automaton insentient

Etymology

From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
  2. noun One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

Etymology [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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