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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scripture

UK /ˈskɹɪptʃə/ · US /ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/ noun

Forms scriptures

  1. noun A sacred writing or holy book. “The primary scripture in Zoroastrianism is the Avesta.”
  2. noun (by extension) An authoritative statement.
  3. noun (Christianity) A (short) passage or verse from the Bible.
  4. noun (Hinduism) a Hindu liturgical text
  5. noun The foundational text of a given religion, or a text considered especially holy.

Synonyms

Bible Christian Bible Book Good Book Holy Scripture Holy Writ Word of God Word sacred scripture

Etymology

From Middle English scripture, from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). By surface analysis, script + -ure.

From Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
  2. noun The books of the Old and the new Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; --used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.

Etymology [L. scriptura, fr. scribere, scriptum, to write: cf. OF. escripture, escriture, F. écriture. See Scribe.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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