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

assumption

/əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/ noun, proper noun

Forms assumptions

  1. noun The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting. “His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.”
  2. noun The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim. “Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.”
  3. noun The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
  4. noun (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
  5. noun The taking of a person up into heaven.
  6. noun A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
  7. noun (rhetoric) Assumptio.
  8. proper noun The Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, into heaven, a Catholic dogma.
  9. proper noun A Christian holy day of obligation (August 15) celebrating the Assumption of Mary.

Synonyms

premise premiss supposition supposal laying claim Assumption of Mary August 15 presumption presumptuousness effrontery

Etymology

From Middle English assumpcioun, from Medieval Latin assūmptiō (“a taking up (into heaven)”) and Latin assūmptiō (“a taking up, adoption, the minor proposition of a syllogism”) (whence -ion), from Latin assūmō (whence as- (“assimilated form of ad-”). See also assume. Doublet of assumptio.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
  2. noun The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.

Etymology [OE. assumpcioun a taking up into heaven, L. assumptio a taking, fr. assumere: cf. F. assomption. See Assume.]

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

Sanskrit

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