Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

founder

UK [ˈfaʊ̯n.də] · US [ˈfaʊ̯n.dɚ] ~ [ˈfaʊ̯n.dɹ̩] noun, verb

Forms founders foundering foundered

noun One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.). “The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.”
noun (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation). “a founder population”
noun The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
noun One who casts metals in various forms; a caster. “a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types”
noun (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
verb (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
verb (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
verb (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
verb (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.
verb (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
noun (US, often in the plural) A Founding Father.

Synonyms

From Old French fondeur, from Latin fundātor, equivalent to found + -er.

From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”).

From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”).

noun One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
noun One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4.
verb To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
verb To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

Etymology [Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L. fundator.]

Etymology [From Found to cast.]

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

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

तुतात tutāta name of the founder of a philosophical system;
कुशाम्बु kuśāmbu name of a son of Kuśa, the founder of Kauśāmbī.
प्रतिष्ठापयितृ prati-ṣṭhāpayitṛ one who erects or fixes; one who founds, a founder.
साङ्कृति sāṅkṛti name of a sage (son of Viśvā-mitra, and founder of the Vaiyāghrapadya family).
मोराक morāka name of king Pravarasena's minister (founder of the temple called after him morāka-bhavana ).
प्रावर्तक prā-vartaka (for pravartaka ), bringing to light, manifesting; stirring up, inciting; founding, a founder.
कुशाम्ब kuśāmba name of a son of Vasu Uparicara; name of a son of Kuśa, who was the founder of the town Kauśāmbī.
शौद्धोदनि śauddhodani ‘son of Śuddhodana,’ a patronymic of the great Buddha (founder of the Buddhist religion, see buddha ).