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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disown

UK /dɪsˈəʊn/ · US /dɪsˈoʊn/ verb

Forms disowns disowning disowned

  1. verb (transitive) To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. “Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.”
  2. verb (transitive) To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
  3. verb (transitive, computing, Unix) To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.

Synonyms

disavow disclaim abjure deny forsay forswear renounce repudiate wash one's hands of disinherit

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.
  2. verb To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.

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

Sanskrit

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