Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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crier

UK /ˈkraɪə/ · US /ˈkɹaɪɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms criers cryer

noun One who cries.
noun An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

weeper town crier

Etymology

From Middle English criour, cryour, crier, from Old French crieor (Modern French crieur), derived from the verb crier. By surface analysis, cry + -er.

Webster’s 1913

noun One who cries; one who makes proclamation. Specifically, an officer who proclams the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.

Etymology [Cf. F. crieur. See Cry.]

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

Sanskrit

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

रवितृ ravitṛ one who cries or calls out, crier, screamer.
नदि nadi a crier, caller, one who calls out; (Sāy.) praise.
आह्व ā-hva who or what calls, a crier; named, called; ( ā ), f. a name, appellation.
घोषयित्नु ghoṣayitnu a crier, a proclaimer, a herald; a Brāhman; the Koïl or Indian cuckoo; a captive (?).
घोषक ghoṣaka a crier, a proclaimer (e.g. in paṭaha-gh˚, q.v.); the creeping plant Luffa Fœtida or a similar plant.
अर्थिक arthika a crier, a watchman, a minstrel, a servant, whose duty it is to announce, by song or music, fixed periods of…
पटहघोषक paṭaha-ghoṣaka a crier who beats a drum before making a proclamation.