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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accident

UK /ˈæk.sɪ.dənt/ · US /ˈæk.sə.dənt/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms accidents

  1. noun An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. “to die by an accident such as an act of God”
  2. noun (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
  3. noun (transport) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes) “There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.”
  4. noun Any chance event.
  5. noun (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
  6. noun Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive. “Beauty is an accident.”
  7. noun (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
  8. noun (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
  9. adjective (transport) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident. “The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.”
  10. proper noun A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.

Synonyms

fortune accidens accidental mishap befalling chance contingency casualty luck casus fortuity stroke chance event

Antonyms

intention inevitability impossibility

Etymology

First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.

Unknown.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
  2. noun A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

Etymology [F. accident, fr. L. accidens, -dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See Cadence, Case.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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