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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vegetation

/ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/ noun

Forms vegetations

  1. noun (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively. “There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.”
  2. noun (pathology, countable and uncoutable) An abnormal mass on an endocardial surface, especially a heart valve, composed chiefly of fibrin and platelets and often containing microorganisms.
  3. noun (pathology, countable, dated) An excrescent, verrucous or fibrinous growth on a mucosal or epithelial surface.
  4. noun The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

Synonyms

verdure flora botany

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
  2. noun The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.

Etymology [Cf. F. végétation, L. vegetatio an enlivening. See Vegetable.]

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

Sanskrit

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