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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muse

UK /mjuːz/ · US /mjuz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms muses musing mused Musae

  1. noun Of a person: a source of inspiration. “Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.”
  2. noun (archaic) A poet; a bard.
  3. verb (intransitive) To become lost in thought, to ponder.
  4. verb (transitive) To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
  5. verb (transitive) To think on; to meditate on.
  6. verb (transitive) To wonder at.
  7. noun An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
  8. noun A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
  9. noun One of the nine Ancient Greek deities of the arts.
  10. proper noun A city in Shan State, Myanmar.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Glades County, Florida.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, named after Rev. Joseph Muse.

Synonyms

Pierian spring afterthink agitate bethink call to mind chew chew over chew the cud cogitate consider contemplate deliberate introspect mull mull over overthink ponder meditate quander reflect think over excogitate ruminate speculate

Etymology

From Middle French muse, from Latin Mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

From Middle English musen, from Old French muser.

From French musse. See muset.

From Middle English Muse, from Latin Musa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
  2. noun One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; --often used in the plural.
  3. noun A particular power and practice of poetry. Shak.
  4. verb To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. "Thereon mused he." Chaucer.

Etymology [From F. musse. See Muset.]

Etymology [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. Mosaic, n., Music.]

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

Sanskrit

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