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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inherit

/ɪnˈhɛɹɪt/ verb

Forms inherits inheriting inherited

  1. verb (transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest, usually after the previous owner's death. “After Grandad died, I inherited the house.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To come into an inheritance. “Lucky old Daniel – his grandfather died rich, and he's inherited.”
  3. verb (transitive) To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations). “Your descendants will inherit the earth.”
  4. verb (transitive, biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission. “Let's hope the baby inherits his mother's looks and his father's intelligence.”
  5. verb (transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force. “This country has inherited an invidious class culture.”
  6. verb (computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass. “ModalWindow inherits all the properties and methods of Window.”
  7. verb (computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To put in possession of.

Antonyms

bequeath leave

Etymology

From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Displaced native Old English ierfan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
  2. verb To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc. Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris. Shak.
  3. verb To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.

Etymology [OE. enheriten to inherit, to give a heritage to, OF. enheriter to appoint as an heir, L. inhereditare; pref. in- in + hereditare to inherit, fr. heres heir. See Heir.]

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

Sanskrit

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