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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involve

UK /ɪnˈvɒlv/ · US /ɪnˈvɑlv/ verb

Forms involves involving involved involvest involvedst involveth envolve

  1. verb To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include. “My job involves forecasting economic trends.”
  2. verb (specifically) To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.
  3. verb To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation. “By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.”
  4. verb (specifically, also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship.
  5. verb (figuratively) To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation. “to involve a person in debt or misery”
  6. verb To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround. “to involve in darkness or obscurity”
  7. verb To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round.
  8. verb To make (something) intricate; to complicate.

Synonyms

comprehend include blend ensnarl implicate merge admix amalgamate bemingle combine commingle intermingle intermix mang meddle ming mingle mix mix up enmesh affect regard imply necessitate ask postulate need require take call for

Etymology

From Late Middle English involven (“to cloud; to encumber; to envelop, surround; to ponder (something); (reflexive) to concern (oneself) with something”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French involver, envoudre, or from its etymon Latin involvere, the present active infinitive of Latin involvō (“to roll to or upon something; to roll about; to coil or curl up; to cover; to envelop, wrap up; to overwhelm”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + volvō (“to roll; to tumble”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; to wind (turn coils)”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  2. verb To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

Etymology [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. in- in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. involver. See Voluble, and cf. Involute.]

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