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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ante

/ˈænti/ preposition, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of ant

Forms antes anteing anted anteed a.

  1. preposition Synonym of before, earlier in time, particularly used in historical dating. “The wall was built at some time a. 1400.”
  2. noun A price or cost, as in up the ante.
  3. noun (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.
  4. verb To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
  5. verb To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

before earlier in time particularly used in historical dating

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ante (“before”). Doublet of and.

* As a Spanish and Catalan surname, perhaps from ante (“elk; suede”).
* As a Dutch and North German surname, from Ente (“duck”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
  2. verb To put up (an ante).

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

Sanskrit

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