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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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bout

/ˈbaʊt/ noun, verb, preposition, proper noun

Also a form of bought

Forms bouts bouting bouted

  1. noun A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness. “a bout of drought”
  2. noun (boxing) A boxing match.
  3. noun (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
  4. noun (roller derby) A roller derby match.
  5. noun A fighting competition.
  6. noun (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
  7. noun (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
  8. verb To contest a bout.
  9. preposition (colloquial) Apheretic form of about. “They're talking bout you!”
  10. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

attack turn round bust tear binge

Etymology

From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht.
For the sense development compare bender.

Written form of a reduction of about.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
  2. noun A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

Etymology [A different spelling and application of bought bend.]

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

Sanskrit

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