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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confound

/kənˈfaʊnd/ verb, noun

Forms confounds confounding confounded

  1. verb To perplex or puzzle.
  2. verb To stun or amaze.
  3. verb To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
  4. verb (sometimes proscribed) To make something worse. “Don't confound the situation by yelling.”
  5. verb To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
  6. verb To cause to be ashamed; to abash. “His actions confounded the skeptics.”
  7. verb To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
  8. verb (dated) To damn (a mild oath). “Confound you!”
  9. noun (statistics) A confounding variable.

Synonyms

puzzle vex confuse mix up addle baffle lose embroil stick stump baffound bamboozle bedevil befuddle throw bemud bemuse bewilder bumfuzzle complicate fox fuddle discombobulate

Etymology

From Middle English confounden (“destroy, ruin, perplex”), from Anglo-Norman cunfundre and Old French confondre, from Latin cōnfundō (“to mingle, mix together”). Related to found (“to melt (metals in a foundry)”) (but not to found (“to start”), nor to find) and to fusion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
  2. verb To mistake for another; to identify falsely.

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

Sanskrit

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

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