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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dower

UK [ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ)] · US [ˈdaw.ɚ] noun, verb, proper noun

Forms dowers dowering dowered

  1. noun (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
  2. noun (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage
  3. noun (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
  4. verb (transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
  5. verb (transitive) To endow.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bride price reverse dowry dowry dowery portion endow

Antonyms

curtesy dowry

Etymology

From Middle English dower, dowere, from Old French doeire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs. Doublet of dowry.

From Middle English dower, equivalent to dough + -er

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
  2. noun The property with which a woman is endowed; especially: (a) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. douaire, LL. dotarium, from L. dotare to endow, portion, fr. dos dower; akin to Gr. dare to give. See 1st Date, and cf. Dot dowry, Dotation.]

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

Sanskrit

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