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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contamination

UK /kənˌtæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ · US /kənˌtæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms contaminations

  1. noun The act or process of contaminating.
  2. noun Something which contaminates.
  3. noun (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
  4. noun (linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
  5. noun (textual criticism) The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.

Synonyms

pollution defilement taint adulterant contaminant impurity pollutant sophisticant adulterator contaminator adulteration defedation sophistication

Antonyms

conservation decontamination distillation purification

Etymology

From Latin contāminātiōnem.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

Etymology [L. contaminatio.]

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

Sanskrit

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