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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omniscient

UK /ɒmˈnɪsɪənt/ · US /ɑmˈnɪʃənt/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms omniscients the Omniscient

  1. adjective Having total knowledge. “The story was narrated from an omniscient point of view.”
  2. noun One who has total knowledge.
  3. proper noun (Christianity) God.
  4. proper noun (Buddhism) Sambuddha.

Synonyms

all-knowing

Etymology

From Medieval Latin omnisciens (“all-knowing”), from Latin omnis (“all”) + sciens (“knowing”) (further analysable via scient).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having universal knowledge; knowing all things; infinitely knowing or wise; as, the omniscient God.

Etymology [Omni- + L. sciens, -entis, p. pr. of scire to know: cf. F. omniscient. See Science.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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