Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

hither

UK /ˈhɪðə/ · US /ˈhɪðɚ/ adverb, adjective, verb

Forms hithers hithering hithered

adverb (literary or archaic) To this place, to here. “He went hither and thither.”
adverb over here
adjective (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
verb only used in the phrase hither and thither

Synonyms

From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.

adverb To this place; --used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
adverb To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; --in a sense not physical.
adjective Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; --correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
adjective Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.

Etymology [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. hra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidrcitra on this side, or E. here, he. He.]

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

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

अर्व arva (in comp.) hither, towards, near to.
वनीवाहन vanīvāhana the act of carrying or moving hither and thither.
समुद्धूत sam-uddhūta shaken about, agitated, driven hither and thither.
विलोलित vi-lolita moved hither and thither, shaken about, agitated, tossed about.
व्याधुत vy-ādhuta shaken about, tossed hither and thither, shaking, trembling, tremulous.
विकृष्यमाण vi-kṛṣyamāṇa being dragged asunder, being dragged or pulled about hither and thither.
लस lasa shining, glancing, playing, moving hither and thither; ( ā ), f. saffron, turmeric.
लोलित lolita moved hither and thither, waved to and fro, shaken, agitated, tremulous, trembling;