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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grieve

/ɡɹiːv/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms grieves grieving grieved

  1. verb (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
  2. verb (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. “to grieve one's fate”
  3. verb (intransitive) To experience grief.
  4. verb (transitive, archaic) To harm.
  5. verb (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
  6. noun (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
  7. noun (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

sadden upset aggrieve attrist begloom begrieve besorrow pain bring down come down on contristate darken dash deject depress desolate dispirit engrieve forset get down sorrow

Etymology

From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin gravō, gravāre, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
For the meaning development compare Russian тяготи́ть (tjagotítʹ, “to be a burden (on), to oppress”), Russian тужи́ть (tužítʹ, “to experience grief”), related to тяжёлый (tjažólyj, “heavy, grave”), тя́жкий (tjážkij).

From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German grēve, grâve,
related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ġerēfa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.

English surname, from Middle English greyve (“steward, bailiff, principal officer”). Compare Reeve, Sheriff. Also sometimes a variant of Grave.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.]
  2. verb To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30.
  3. verb To sorrow over; as, to grieve one's fate. [R.]
  4. verb To feel grief; to be in pain of mind on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn; --often followed by at, for, or over.

Etymology [AS. ger. Cf. Reeve an officer.]

Etymology [OE. greven, OF. grever, fr. L. gravare to burden, oppress, fr. gravis heavy. See Grief.]

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

Sanskrit

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