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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cohere

UK /kəʊˈhɪə/ · US /koʊˈhɪɚ/ verb

Forms coheres cohering cohered cohære

  1. verb (intransitive) To stick together physically, by adhesion. “Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.”
  2. verb (intransitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose. “Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.”
  3. verb (transitive, figurative) To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

Synonyms

cling cleave adhere stick

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
  2. verb To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.

Etymology [L. cohaerere, cohaesum; co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See Aghast, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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