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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boon

/buːn/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of Boone

Forms boons booner boonest

  1. noun A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly. “Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.”
  2. noun That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
  3. noun (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
  4. noun (UK, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
  5. noun (Hinduism) A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
  6. adjective (now only in boon companion) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
  7. adjective (archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
  8. adjective (obsolete) Good; prosperous. “boon voyage”
  9. noun The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
  10. proper noun A surname
  11. proper noun A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.
  12. proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.

Synonyms

gift blessing benefit benefaction concession donative fairing grant present tithing shive shove

Antonyms

bane

Etymology

From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adjective). Doublet of ben; see there for more.

From Middle English boon, bone, borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonus, dvenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dū- (“to respect”).

From Middle English bone (“reed, stem, husk”), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed; drinking cup”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A prayer or petition. [Obs.]
  2. noun That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
  3. adjective Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage. [Obs.]
  4. adjective Kind; bountiful; benign.

Etymology [OE. bone, boin, a petition, fr. Icel. b; akin to Sw. & Dan. b, AS. b, and perh. to E. ban; but influenced by F. bon good, fr. L. bonus. Ban, Bounty.]

Etymology [F. bon. See Boon, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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