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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envy

/ˈɛnvi/ noun, verb

Forms envies envying envied

  1. noun Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
  2. noun An object of envious notice or feeling.
  3. noun (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
  4. noun (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
  5. noun (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
  6. noun A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
  7. verb (transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
  8. verb (transitive) To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
  9. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To have envious feelings (at).
  10. verb (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
  11. verb (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
  12. verb (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
  13. verb (obsolete) To hate.
  14. verb (obsolete) To emulate.

Synonyms

enviousness invidia begrudge

Antonyms

kindness

Etymology

From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).
Displaced native Old English æfest and Old English nīþ.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Malice; ill will; spite. [Obs.]
  2. noun Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; --usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Cæsar.
  3. verb To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it. A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. Collier.
  4. verb To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.

Etymology [F. envie, L. invidia envious; akin to invidere to look askance at, to look with enmity; in against + videre to see. See Vision.]

Etymology [F. envier.]

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

Sanskrit

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