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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propagation

UK /pɹɒpəˈɡeɪʃən/ · US /pɹɑpəˈɡeɪʃən/ noun

Forms propagations

  1. noun The multiplication or natural increase in a population. “plant propagation”
  2. noun The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number. “The farmer specialized in the propagation of rare orchids.”
  3. noun (religion) The winning of new converts.
  4. noun (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave. “Radio propagation varies with atmospheric conditions.”
  5. noun (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.

Synonyms

extension generation multiplication

Etymology

From Middle French propagation, from Old French propagacion, from Latin propagatio. Morphologically propagate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.
  2. noun The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel. Bacon.

Etymology [L. propagatio: cf. F. propagation.]

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

Sanskrit

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