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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spawn

UK /spɔːn/ · US /spɔn/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms spawns spawning spawned

  1. verb (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. “A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.”
  2. verb (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
  3. verb (transitive) To bring forth in general. “The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.”
  4. verb (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
  5. verb (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
  6. verb (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
  7. verb (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
  8. verb (ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time. “We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.”
  9. noun The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
  10. noun Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
  11. noun Any germ or seed, even a figurative source. “This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.”
  12. noun (often derogatory) Children; offspring.
  13. noun (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
  14. noun (video games) Synonym of spawn point.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

spawn point engender breed

Etymology

Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).

From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
  2. verb To bring forth; to generate; --used in contempt.
  3. verb To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
  4. verb To issue, as offspring; --used contemptuously.

Etymology [OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed, spread, L. expandere to spread out. See Expand.]

Etymology [sq. root170. See Spawn, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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