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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

dew

/d͡ʒuː/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms dews dewing dewed

  1. noun (uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
  2. noun (uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
  3. noun (countable, but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc. “There was a heavy dew this morning.”
  4. noun (figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
  5. noun (figurative) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
  6. verb (transitive) To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
  7. verb (intransitive) To deposit dew.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

Synonyms

rore

Etymology

From Middle English dew, from Old English dēaw (“dew”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauw, from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz, *dawwą (“dew, moisture”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”).
Cognate with German Tau, Dutch dauw and Afrikaans dou. Doublet of dag.

From Middle English dewe, dewen, from Old English *dēawian, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwēn, from Proto-Germanic *dawwāną. Cognates include Saterland Frisian daue, German tauen and Dutch dauwen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
  2. noun Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner. "The golden dew of sleep." Shak.
  3. verb To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew. The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so. A. B. Saxton.
  4. adjective Same as Due, or Duty. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [AS. deáw; akin to D. dauw, G. thau, tau, Icel. dögg, Sw. dagg, Dan. dug; cf. Skr. dhav, dhav, to flow. Dag dew.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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