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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foundation

/ˌfaʊ̯nˈdeɪ̯ʃən/ noun

Forms foundations

  1. noun The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect. “The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.”
  2. noun That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
  3. noun (figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
  4. noun (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
  5. noun (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. “The foundations of this construction have been laid out.”
  6. noun A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
  7. noun That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity. “The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wiktionary collaborative project.”
  8. noun (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.

Synonyms

establishment basis groundwork underbuilding underframework warp and weft underpinning platform stage base groundwall fundament foot substructure understructure grounding cornerstone foundation garment initiation founding institution origination creation innovation introduction instauration

Antonyms

abolition dissolution ruination

Etymology

From Middle English foundacioun, fundacioun, from Old French fondacion, from Latin fundātiō (“founding, foundation”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
  2. noun That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.

Etymology [F. fondation, L. fundatio. See Found to establish.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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