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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weary

UK /ˈwɪə̯ɹi/ · US /ˈwɪɚi/ adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms wearier weariest wearies wearying wearied Wearys

  1. adjective Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. “A weary traveller knocked at the door.”
  2. adjective Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. “soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement;  I grew weary of studying and left the library.”
  3. adjective Expressive of fatigue. “He gave me a weary smile.”
  4. adjective Causing weariness; tiresome.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To make or to become weary.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

drained bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired bushed tired out spent wrecked dog-tired dog-weary exhausted fatigued forfairn forlagen forworn heavyeyed jaded languid enervated tire wear upon tire out wear jade wear out outwear wear down fag out fag

Etymology

From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ (“weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōrīg, *wōrag (“weary”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon wōrig (“weary”), Old High German wōrag, wuarag (“drunken”), Latvian vārgs (“weak”), Lithuanian vergas (“slave”), Latvian vergs (“slave”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
  2. adjective Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." Spenser. "There passed a weary time." Coleridge.
  3. verb To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
  4. verb To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.

Etymology [OE. weri, AS. w; akin to OS. w, OHG. wu; of uncertain origin; cf. AS. w to ramble.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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