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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dread

/dɹɛd/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms dreads dreading dreaded dreader dreadest

  1. verb (transitive) To fear greatly.
  2. verb To anticipate with fear. “I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
  4. verb (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
  5. noun Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. “My visit to the doctor is filling me with dread.”
  6. noun Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
  7. noun Somebody or something dreaded.
  8. noun (obsolete) A person highly revered.
  9. noun (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
  10. noun A Rastafarian.
  11. adjective Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
  12. adjective (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

Synonyms

apprehension apprehensiveness fear awful dire direful dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible

Etymology

From Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondrǣdan (“to fear, dread”), from Proto-West Germanic *andarādan, equivalent to Old English and- + rǣdan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread.
Akin to Old Saxon antdrādan, andrādan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intrātan (“to fear”), Middle High German entrāten (“to fear, dread, frighten”).

From Middle English drede, dred, from the verb (see above). Cognate with Old Frisian drēd, drēde (“fear, dread”).

From Middle English drede, dredde, dradde, ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”), past participle of Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”). See above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
  2. verb To be in dread, or great fear.
  3. noun Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
  4. noun Reverential or respectful fear; awe. The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth. Gen. ix. 2.

Etymology [AS. dr, in comp.; akin to OS. dradan, OHG. tratan, both only in comp.]

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

Sanskrit

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