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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guess

/ɡɛs/ verb, noun

Forms guesses guessing guessed guessest guessedst guesseth

  1. verb To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate. “We can only guess at what was going through her mind.”
  2. verb To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. “He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.”
  3. verb To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). “That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.”
  4. verb (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess". “"I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."”
  5. verb (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
  6. noun A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support. “If you don't know the answer, take a guess.”

Synonyms

assume conjecture hypothesize speculate suppose surmise take a stab estimate hypothesis prediction supposition surmisal speculation guesswork guessing shot dead reckoning think opine imagine reckon venture pretend hazard gauge approximate judge infer

Etymology

From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”).
Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
  2. verb To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
  3. verb To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; --with at, about, etc This is the place, as well as I may guess. Milton.
  4. noun An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.

Etymology [OE. gessen; akin to Dan. gisse, Sw. gissa, Icel. gizha, D. gissen: cf. Dan. giette to guess, Icel. geta to get, to guess. Probably originally, to try to get, and akin to E. get. See Get.]

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

Sanskrit

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