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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gust

/ɡʌst/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms gusts gusting gusted

  1. noun A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
  2. noun (by extension) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).
  3. verb (intransitive, transitive) To blow in gusts.
  4. noun (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
  5. noun Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
  6. noun Intellectual taste; fancy.
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To taste.
  8. verb (obsolete, transitive) To have a relish for.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

windflaw blast blow

Etymology

Apparently from an unrecorded Middle English *gust, from Old Norse gustr (“a gust, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *gustiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-. Cognate with Icelandic gustur (“gust of wind”). Related also to Old Norse gusa (“to gush forth”), Old High German gussa (“flood”), Middle English guschen (> English gush).
The English word was not recorded before Shakespeare.

From Middle English gust, guste, from Latin gustus (“taste”) and Old French gust, goust.

From Middle English gusten (“to taste, have a taste for”), from the noun (see above).

Of Old Norse origin, from Gustav.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.
  2. noun A sudden violent burst of passion. Bacon.
  3. noun The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto.
  4. noun Gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment.

Etymology [Icel. gustr a cool breeze. Cf. Gush.]

Etymology [L. gustus; cf. It. & Sp. gusto. sq. root46.]

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

Sanskrit

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