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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allow

/əˈlaʊ/ verb

Forms allows allowing allowed allowest allowedst alloweth

  1. verb (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something. “to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest”
  2. verb (intransitive) To present something as possible or reasonable. “The event allows of only one interpretation.”
  3. verb (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to. “I will allow my son to be absent.”
  4. verb To not bar or obstruct. “Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.”
  5. verb (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion; to say something one agrees on in the context of a larger disagreement or reluctance. “to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow an appeal”
  6. verb (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. “to allow a sum for leakage”
  7. verb (transitive) To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans. “When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.”
  8. verb (transitive) To render physically possible.

Synonyms

grant admit afford yield give permit allot bestow concede let grant licence to consent tolerate suffer accede acquiesce countenance appropriate earmark set aside reserve leave allow for provide take into account give up

Antonyms

ban forbid prohibit disallow deny

Etymology

From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaudāre, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”). Doublet of allaud (via allaudāre) or allocate (via allocāre).
The similarity with Middle English alyfen (from Old English ālīefan) and German erlauben, both from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijaną (“to allow”) is unrelated.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [Obs. or Archaic]
  2. verb To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.]
  3. verb To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Etymology [OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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