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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assoil

/əˈsɔɪl/ verb

Forms assoils assoiling assoiled assoyle

  1. verb To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.
  2. verb To atone or expiate for (something).
  3. verb (law) Followed by from or of: to acquit (someone) from a criminal charge; to find (someone) not guilty; to clear.
  4. verb (archaic or obsolete) Followed by from or of: to release or set free (someone) from a liability, an obligation, etc.; to discharge.
  5. verb To clear up or resolve (a difficulty, doubt, problem, etc.); to absolve, to solve.
  6. verb To refute (an argument, an objection, etc.).
  7. verb (rare) To discharge (a liability, an obligation, etc.).
  8. verb (rare) To get rid of, put off, or remove (something).
  9. verb (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To make (something) dirty or soiled; to soil; to stain; to sully.

Synonyms

assoilze exonerate vindicate acquittance assoilzie acquit absolve clear disculp disculpate exculpate soil soyle befoul foul slur beclart bedaub bedirty imbrue (especially with blood) discharge

Etymology

From Middle English assoilen (“to absolve or release from blame or sin”), from Anglo-Norman as(s)oiler, as(s)oilier, and Old French as(s)oille [and other forms], the present subjunctive, and as(s)oil, the present indicative, of as(s)oldre, as(s)oudre (“to absolve from blame”) (modern French absoudre), from Latin absoluere, the present active infinitive of absoluō, a variant of absolvō (“to set free from”), from ab- (prefix meaning ‘away from’) + solvō (“to loosen, set free”) (from sē- (“prefix meaning ‘apart; aside; away’”) + luō (“to let go, set free”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, to free”). Doublet of absolve and assoilzie.

Possibly from a- (intensifying prefix) or ad- (prefix meaning ‘to, toward’, or indicating an addition or tendency) + soil (“to make dirty”), perhaps influenced by assoil (etymology 1).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To set free; to release. [Archaic]
  2. verb To solve; to clear up. [Obs.]
  3. verb To soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl.

Etymology [OF. assoiler, absoiler, assoldre, F. absoudre, L. absolvere. See Absolve.]

Etymology [Pref. ad- + soil.]

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