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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oversee

UK /ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/ · US /ˌoʊ.vɚˈsi/ verb

Forms oversees overseeing oversaw overseen

  1. verb (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
  2. verb (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group. “It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.”
  3. verb To inspect, examine. “Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.”
  4. verb (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
  5. verb To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Synonyms

superintend supervise manage

Etymology

From Middle English overseen, ouverseen, from Old English ofersēon (“to observe, oversee; to overlook, neglect”), equivalent to over- + see.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
  2. verb To omit or neglect seeing. Spenser.
  3. verb To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. oferséon to survey, to despise. See Over, and See.]

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

Sanskrit

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