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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offspring

UK /ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/ · US /ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/ noun

Forms offsprings

  1. noun A person's daughter or son; a person's child. “We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.”
  2. noun Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
  3. noun An animal or plant's progeny or young.
  4. noun (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts. “Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.”
  5. noun (computing) A process launched by another process.

Synonyms

baby babies child children fruit of one's loins issue get kid kids binary clone descendants lineage progeny seed materialization materialisation young

Antonyms

genitor parent progenitor father mother ancestors forbear forebear forefather

Etymology

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of production; generation. [Obs.]
  2. noun That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.

Etymology [Off + spring.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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