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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haunt

UK /hɔːnt/ · US /hɔnt/ verb, noun

Forms haunts haunting haunted hant ha'nt haint harnt

  1. verb (transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts). “A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.”
  2. verb (transitive) To make uneasy, restless. “The memory of his past failures haunted him.”
  3. verb (transitive) To stalk; to follow. “The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.”
  4. verb (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
  5. verb (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
  6. verb (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
  7. verb (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
  8. noun A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. “The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.”
  9. noun (dialect) A ghost.
  10. noun A lair or feeding place of animals in the wild.

Synonyms

nag live dwell repair haint hangout resort stamping ground stalk obsess ghost frequent

Etymology

From Middle English haunten (“to reside, inhabit, use, employ”), from Old French hanter (“to inhabit, frequent, resort to”), from Old Northern French hanter (“to go back home, frequent”), from Old Norse heimta (“to bring home, fetch”) or/and from Old English hāmettan (“to bring home; house; cohabit with”); both from Proto-Germanic *haimatjaną (“to house, bring home”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village”).
Cognate with Old English hǣman (“to cohabit, lie with, marry”); related to Old English hām (“home, village”), Old French hantin (“a stay, a place frequented by”) from the same Germanic source. Another descendant from the French is Dutch hanteren, whence German hantieren, Swedish hantera, Danish håndtere. More at home.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
  2. verb To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.
  3. verb To persist in staying or visiting.
  4. noun A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

Etymology [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). sq. root36.]

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

Sanskrit

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