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

abortion

/əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/ noun

Forms abortions

  1. noun (now uncommon in general use) A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.
  2. noun An induced abortion. “Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.”
  3. noun (now rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus.
  4. noun (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
  5. noun (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
  6. noun (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
  7. noun The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

Synonyms

miscarriage misbirth aborticide feticide foeticide termination abort abortus embryoctony

Etymology

From Latin abortiōnem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort + -ion. Displaced native Old English ǣwyrp (literally “throwing out, rejection”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
  2. noun The immature product of an untimely birth.

Etymology [L. abortio, fr. aboriri. See Abort.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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