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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govern

UK /ˈɡʌv.ən/ · US /ˈɡʌv.ɚn/ verb, noun

Forms governs governing governed

  1. verb (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in. “The old king governed the land wisely.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
  3. verb (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain. “Govern yourselves like civilized people.”
  4. verb (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on. “Chance governs the outcome of many card games.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
  7. verb (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate. “a valve that governs fuel intake”
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
  9. noun The act of governing

Synonyms

collocate regulate regularize regularise order rule

Etymology

From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, drive, govern”). Displaced native Old English wealdan, whence modern dialectical English wald (“to govern”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority. "Fit to govern and rule multitudes." Shak.
  2. verb To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse.
  3. verb To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control. Dryden.

Etymology [OF. governer, F. gouverner, fr. L. gubernare to steer, pilot, govern, Gr. Gubernatorial.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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