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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

himself

/hɪmˈsɛlf/ pronoun

Also a form of herself itself

Forms he herself itself themselves themself himselfe himselve

  1. pronoun (reflexive pronoun) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject “He injured himself.”
  2. pronoun (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate “He was injured himself.”
  3. pronoun (Ireland, otherwise archaic) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
  4. pronoun (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others) “Has himself come down to breakfast yet?”

Synonyms

hisself hissen

Etymology

From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him + -self.

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; --used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself.
  2. pronoun One's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself.
  3. Themselves. See Hemself. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Sanskrit

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

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