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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assize

/əˈsaɪz/ noun, verb

Forms assizes assizing assized aßize

  1. noun A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
  2. noun The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
  3. noun An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
  4. noun A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures. “the assize of bread and other provisions”
  5. noun Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc. “rent of assize”
  6. noun (obsolete) A measure, dimension, or size.
  7. verb (transitive) To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.

Etymology

From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [Obs.]
  2. noun (a) A special kind of jury or inquest.
  3. verb To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs.] Gower.
  4. verb To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid to sit by; ad + sed to sit. See Sit, Size, and cf. Excise, Assess.]

Etymology [From Assize, n.: cf. LL. assisare to decree in assize. Cf. Asses, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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