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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“incarnations” is a form of

incarnation

UK /ˌɪŋ.kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/ · US /ˌɪŋ.kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/ noun, proper noun

Forms incarnations

  1. noun An incarnate being or form.
  2. noun A version or iteration (of something).
  3. noun A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
  4. noun An assumption of human form or nature.
  5. noun A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like. “The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.”
  6. noun The act of incarnating.
  7. noun The state of being incarnated.
  8. noun (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.
  9. proper noun (Christianity) The doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human.

Synonyms

avatar embodiment instantiation realization personification

Etymology

From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.
  2. noun The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.

Etymology [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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