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

affinity

/əˈfɪnɪti/ noun

Forms affinities

  1. noun A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
  2. noun A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
  3. noun A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
  4. noun The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
  5. noun Any romantic relationship.
  6. noun A love interest; a paramour.
  7. noun Any passionate love for something.
  8. noun (taxonomy) Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.

Synonyms

kindred phylogenetic relation kinship chemical attraction

Antonyms

consanguinity

Etymology

From Middle English affinite, from Old French affinité. Ostensibly equivalent to affine + -ity. See also af-.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); --in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; --followed by with, to, or between.
  2. noun Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.

Etymology [OF. afinité, F. affinité, L. affinites, fr. affinis. See Affined.]

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

Sanskrit

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