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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tributary

/ˈtɹɪbjʊtəɹi/ noun, adjective

Forms tributaries

  1. noun (hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
  2. noun (anatomy) A vein which drains into another vein. “The great saphenous vein is a tributary of the femoral vein.”
  3. noun A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
  4. adjective Related to the paying of tribute.
  5. adjective Subordinate; inferior.
  6. adjective Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing. “The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.”

Synonyms

affluent influent feeder confluent conducive contributing contributive contributory

Antonyms

distributary

Etymology

From Middle English tributarie (“paying tribute”), from Latin tribūtārius, from tribūtum (“tribute”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
  2. adjective Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
  3. noun A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
  4. noun A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.

Etymology [OE. tributaire, F. tributaire, L. tributarius. See Tribute.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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