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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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bode

UK /bəʊd/ · US /boʊd/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of bede bide

Forms bodes boding boded bodest bodedst bodeth

  1. verb Of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of (something); to portend.
  2. verb (archaic) To declare (something, such as a future event) before it occurs; to foretell, to predict; specifically, to predict (something undesirable); to forebode.
  3. verb (intransitive) Often followed by ill or well: of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of something.
  4. noun A feeling that something is going to happen; a premonition, a presentiment.
  5. noun An indication, an omen, a sign.
  6. noun A message; also, news, tidings.
  7. noun (Northern England, Scotland) An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something; a bid.
  8. verb (transitive, Scotland) To make a bid or offer for (something); to bid, to offer.
  9. noun (obsolete except historical) A herald; a messenger.
  10. noun (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) An act of biding or waiting; a wait; also, a delay.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A male given name.
  13. proper noun A city in Iowa.
  14. proper noun A village in Nepal.
  15. proper noun A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
  16. proper noun A small river and tributary to the Wipper

Synonyms

betoken augur presage anticipate call divine forecast foredeem forehold foresee foreshadow foretell predict prognosticate prophesy augury foreshadowing tarrying portend auspicate omen prefigure

Etymology

The verb is derived partly from the following:
* From Middle English boden, bodian (“to be a sign or symbol, betoken, signify; to be an omen of a future event, forebode, foreshadow; to foretell, presage; to command, order; to deliver a message, proclaim, report; to preach”), from Old English bodian (“to announce, proclaim, tell; to foretell, prophesy; to preach; etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodōn (“to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”), from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake; to be aware”). Doublet of bid (“to make an attempt; to make an offer”).
* A back-formation from forebode.
The noun is derived from Middle English bod (“foreboding, omen; message, report; command, edict; (Christianity) commandment; etc.”), from Old English bod (“command, edict, order”), from Proto-West Germanic *bod (“command, mandate, order”), from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message; offer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (see above).

The noun is derived from Middle English bod (“act of bargaining or offering, or the subject of the bargain or offer; promise; proposal”), the same word stated in etymology 1. Doublet of bid.
The verb is probably derived from the noun.
* Norwegian Bokmål bud, Norwegian Nynorsk bod
* Old Saxon gibod

From Middle English bode (“emissary, messenger”), from Old English boda (“herald, messenger; prophet”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodō, from Proto-Germanic *budô (“messenger”), from *beudaną (“to bid, offer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake; to be aware”) (compare etymology 1).
* Dutch bode (“harbinger, messenger”)
* German Bote (“messenger”)

From Middle English bod, bode, bade, baide; further etymology uncertain, probably:
* an aphetic form of abod (“act of waiting, delay”), probably related to Old English bād (“expectation; waiting”), from Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō; and/or
* a variant of bide (“act of delaying; a delay”), from Old English bīd (“act of abiding; delay”), related to bīdan (“to remain, stay; to wait”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīdan (“to wait”), from Proto-Germanic *bīdaną (“to await, wait”) (whence modern English abide, bide), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to convince; to trust”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
  2. verb To foreshow something; to augur.
  3. noun An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]
  4. noun A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] Sir W. Scott

Etymology [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod command; akin to Icel. bo to announce, Sw. båda to announce, portend. sq. root89. See Bid.]

Etymology [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG. boto. See Bode, v. t.]

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