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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origin

UK /ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/ · US /ˈoɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/ noun, proper noun

Forms origins

  1. noun The beginning of something. “place of origin”
  2. noun The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
  3. noun (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  4. noun (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  5. noun (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  6. noun (in the plural) Ancestry.
  7. proper noun (rugby league) the State of Origin series (an annual best-of-three rugby league series between New South Wales and Queensland, nicknamed the "Blues" and the "Maroons", respectively)

Synonyms

beginning source zero vector root rootage descent extraction origination inception lineage line line of descent bloodline blood line blood pedigree ancestry parentage stemma stock

Antonyms

end destination insertion

Etymology

From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
  2. noun That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

Etymology [F. origine, L. origo, -iginis, fr. oriri to rise, become visible; akin to Gr. r, and perh. to E. run.]

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

Sanskrit

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