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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assist

/əˈsɪst/ verb, noun

Forms assists assisting assisted

  1. verb To help. “This book will assist you in getting your life in order.”
  2. verb (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
  3. verb (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
  4. verb (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion). “A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.”
  5. verb (now archaic) To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).
  6. noun A helpful action or an act of giving. “The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.”
  7. noun (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
  8. noun (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout. “He had two assists in the game.”

Synonyms

chip in help help out muck in pitch in aid assistance serve attend to wait on attend

Antonyms

hinder hurt

Etymology

From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
  2. verb To lend aid; to help.
  3. verb To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.

Etymology [L. assistere; ad + sistere to cause to stand, to stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. assister. See Stand.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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