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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beginning

/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of begin

Forms beginnings begynnynge

  1. noun (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
  2. noun That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
  3. noun That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause. “What was the beginning of the dispute?”
  4. noun The initial portion of some extended thing. “The author describes the main character’s youth at the beginning of the story.”
  5. adjective (informal) Being the first portion of some extended thing. “in the beginning paragraph of the chapter”

Synonyms

commencing start starting genesis element embryo rudiment origin source commencement head morning birth font fount inauguration initiation launch spring springtime first outset get-go kickoff starting time showtime offset root rootage

Antonyms

conclusion end completion finish ending middle

Etymology

From Middle English biginning, beginninge, beginnunge, equivalent to begin + -ing.

From Middle English begynnyng, bygynnynge, From Old English *beginnende (attested only as Old English onginnende), from Proto-Germanic *biginnandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), equivalent to begin + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
  2. noun That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.

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

Sanskrit

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