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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descent

UK /dɪˈsɛnt/ · US /dəˈsɛnt/ noun

Forms descents

  1. noun An instance of descending; act of coming down. “We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier.”
  2. noun A way down. “We had difficulty in finding the correct descent.”
  3. noun A sloping passage or incline. “The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.”
  4. noun Lineage or hereditary derivation. “Our guide was of Welsh descent.”
  5. noun A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. “After that, the holiday went into a steep descent.”
  6. noun A falling upon or invasion.
  7. noun (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.

Synonyms

origin extraction line of descent lineage filiation declivity fall decline declination declension downslope line bloodline blood line blood pedigree ancestry parentage stemma stock

Antonyms

ascent

Etymology

From Middle English and Anglo-Norman descente, from Anglo-Norman descendre (“to descend”); see descend. Compare ascent, ascend. Doublet of desant.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
  2. noun Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - -often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

Etymology [F. descente, fr. descendre; like vente, from vendre. See Descend.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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