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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breeding

/ˈbɹiːdɪŋ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of breed

Forms breedings

  1. noun Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
  2. noun The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
  3. noun The act of copulation in animals.
  4. noun The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
  5. noun Nurture; education; formation of manners.
  6. noun Descent; pedigree; extraction. “Your dog has good breeding.”
  7. noun (LGBTQ slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
  8. adjective Of, relating to or used for breeding. “Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.”
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

genteelness gentility education training bringing up fostering fosterage nurture raising rearing upbringing reproduction procreation facts of life

Etymology

From Middle English breedyng, bredynge (“gestation, incubation, propagation, hatching; engineering, formation, development, growth”), equivalent to breed + -ing.

From Middle English bredyng, bredynge, from Old English *brēdende, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood; breed”), equivalent to breed + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of generating or bearing.
  2. noun The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

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

Sanskrit

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

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