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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revelation

/ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ noun, proper noun

Forms revelations

  1. noun The act of revealing or disclosing. “The revelation of the culprits' identities was cathartic for the populace.”
  2. noun Something that is revealed.
  3. noun Something dramatically disclosed. “This invention was a revelation for farmers throughout the region, who immediately adopted it.”
  4. noun (theology) A manifestation of divine truth.
  5. noun Something that turns out to be a great success. “This invention was a revelation for farming throughout the region, where it doubled crop yields.”
  6. proper noun (biblical) The final book of the New Testament of the Bible; its events.

Synonyms

apocalypse Rev. The Apocalypse The Apocalypse of John The Book of Revelation The Revelation of St. John the Divine The Revelation to John disclosure revealing divine revelation Revelation of Saint John the Divine Book of Revelation

Etymology

From Middle English revelacioun, from Old French revelacion, from Latin revēlātiō (“disclosure”), from revēlō (“to disclose”), re (“again”) + vēlō (“to cover”); by surface analysis, revelate + -ion.

Proprialization from revelation. The translation decisions, from the original Greek to the conventional English choices Revelation and Apocalypse, are covered by Wikipedia at Book of Revelation § Title, authorship, and date.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
  2. noun That which is revealed.

Etymology [F. révélation, L. revelatio. See Reveal.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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