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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bye

/baɪ/ noun, adjective, interjection, proper noun

Also a form of goodbye

Forms byes

  1. noun The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team. “Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.”
  2. noun (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
  3. noun (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
  4. noun (Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
  5. noun (card games) A pass.
  6. adjective Out of the way; remote.
  7. adjective Secondary; supplementary.
  8. interjection (colloquial) Goodbye.
  9. interjection (African-American Vernacular, slang) An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.
  10. noun (computing) A command to exit a session.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

get out of here applesauce bender bollocks bosh bugger off bullcrap bullcrud bullfuck bullshit chinny reckon codswallop come off it come on c'mon fiddle fiddledeedee fiddle-faddle fiddlefart fiddlestick pass adieu adios arrivederci auf wiedersehen au revoir bye-bye cheerio good-by goodby

Etymology

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).

Alternative forms.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i.e., in passing; indirectly; by implication. [Obs. except in the phrase by the bye.]
  2. noun A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye. T. Hughes.
  3. A dwelling. Gibson.
  4. In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.

Etymology [AS.bbygbyggia, b, to dwell sq. root97.]

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

Sanskrit

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