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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spontaneous

UK /spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ · US /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ adjective

  1. adjective Self-directed; happening or acting without external cause or instigation; proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or momentary impulse. “He made a spontaneous offer of help.”
  2. adjective Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
  3. adjective Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
  4. adjective Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
  5. adjective Sudden, without warning.
  6. adjective Said or done without prior planning or prior writing. “He made spontaneous remarks in the court, after being asked an unexpected question.”

Synonyms

autonomous automatic involuntary natural unforced impulsive extemporaneous unpremeditated unprompted unwritten abrupt precipitous subitaneous precipitant precipitate sudden suddent self-generated ad-lib

Antonyms

induced stimulated voluntary calculated deliberate planned premeditated

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin spontāneus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
  2. adjective Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or natural law, without external force; as, spontaneous motion; spontaneous growth.

Etymology [L. spontaneus, fr. sponte of free will, voluntarily.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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