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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conjecture

UK /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃə/ · US /kənˈd͡ʒɛkt͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms conjectures conjecturing conjectured

  1. noun (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess. “I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.”
  2. noun (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis. “The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.”
  3. noun (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
  4. noun (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
  5. verb (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea. “I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.”
  6. verb (transitive) To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.

Synonyms

speculation guess supposition surmise surmisal hypothesis speculate theorize theorise hypothesize hypothesise hypothecate suppose

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject.
Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
  2. verb To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
  3. verb To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.

Etymology [L. conjectura, fr. conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture; con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See Jet a shooting forth.]

Etymology [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf. Conject.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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