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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Children’s” is a form of

child

/tʃaɪld/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms children childer childs childing childed childe chile childrens Chill

  1. noun (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). “Go easy on him: he is but a child.”
  2. noun (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
  3. noun (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter. “My youngest child is forty-three this year.”
  4. noun (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
  5. noun A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. “the children of Israel”
  6. noun Anything derived from or caused by something.
  7. noun (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another. “The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.”
  8. noun (mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
  9. verb (archaic, ambitransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

kid descendant product son daughter boy and Thesaurus:girl binary clone progeny hybrid bairn brat chit crumb cruncher crumb crusher crumb grinder crumb snatcher fry juvenile kiddie youngster minor shaver nipper small fry tiddler tike tyke nestling baby

Antonyms

father mother parent adult grownup

Etymology

From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).

From Middle English childen, from the noun child.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; --in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
  2. noun A descendant, however remote; --used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
  3. verb To give birth; to produce young.

Etymology [AS. cild, pl. cildru; cf. Goth. kilÞei womb, in-kilÞ\'d3 with child.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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