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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custody

/ˈkʌstədiː/ noun

Forms custodies

  1. noun The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children. “The court awarded custody to the child's father.”
  2. noun Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property. “I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.”
  3. noun The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial. “He was mistreated while in police custody.”
  4. noun (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor. “The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.”

Synonyms

detention detainment hold hands

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin custōdia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custōs (“a keeper, watchman, guard”). Doublet of custode.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
  2. noun Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

Etymology [L. custodia, fr. custos guard; prob. akin to Gr. hide. Seee Hide to cover.]

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

Sanskrit

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