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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“evolved” is a form of

evolve

UK /ɪˈvɒlv/ · US /ɪˈvɑlv/ verb

Forms evolves evolving evolved

  1. verb To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
  2. verb To change or transform (something). “Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.”
  3. verb To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
  4. verb (transitive) To acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution. “How long ago did birds evolve beaks?”
  5. verb (chiefly intransitive) To change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution. “A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?”
  6. verb (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction. “to evolve odours”
  7. verb (obsolete) To wind or unwind (something).
  8. verb To move in regular procession through a system.

Synonyms

develop progress convert draw metamorphize metamorphose reconvert shift transfigurate transfigure transform transmogrify transmute transume contrive generate bring forth cause create ferment germinate acquire

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ē- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volvō (“roll”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
  2. verb To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.
  3. verb To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution. Prior.

Etymology [L. evolvere, evolutum; e out + volvere to roll. See Voluble.]

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

Sanskrit

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