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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fetch

/fɛt͡ʃ/ verb, noun, interjection

Forms fetches fetching fetched fatch fotch

  1. verb (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. “You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.”
  2. verb (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. “If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000”
  3. verb (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. “to fetch headway or sternway”
  4. verb (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  5. verb (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
  6. verb (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to. “to fetch a man to”
  8. verb (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
  9. noun (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
  10. noun (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data. “a fetch from a cache”
  11. noun The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
  12. noun An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
  13. noun The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
  14. noun A stratagem or trick; an artifice. “They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.”
  15. noun (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
  16. interjection (Utah) Minced oath for fuck.
  17. noun (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

Synonyms

collect contrivance dodge bring get convey bring in

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).
The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

Uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:
* From fetch-life (“(obsolete, rare) a deity, spirit, etc., who guides the soul of a dead person to the afterlife; a psychopomp”).
* From the supposed Old English *fæcce (“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; a mare”).
* From Old Irish fáith (“seer, soothsayer”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton.
  2. verb To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
  3. verb To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward.
  4. noun A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.

Etymology [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. sq. root 77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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