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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engrave

/ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/ verb

Forms engraves engraving engraved ingrave

  1. verb (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. “He engraved the plaque with his name.”
  2. verb (transitive) To carve (something) into a material. “He engraved his name.”
  3. verb (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.

Synonyms

carve etch inscribe scratch grave

Etymology

From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- + grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.
  2. verb To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.]
  3. verb To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.

Etymology [Pref. en- + grave a tomb. Cf. Engrave to carve.]

Etymology [Pref. en- + grave to carve: cf. OF. engraver.]

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

Sanskrit

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