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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athwart

UK /əˈθwɔːt/ · US /əˈθwɔɹt/ adverb, preposition

  1. adverb From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over. “Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.”
  2. adverb Across the path of something, so as to impede progress. “a fleet standing athwart our course”
  3. adverb (figuratively) Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.
  4. preposition From one side to the other side of; across. “The stars moved slowly athwart the sky.”
  5. preposition Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence (figuratively), to the attention of.
  6. preposition Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.
  7. preposition Across; through.
  8. preposition Opposed to.
  9. preposition (nautical) Across the line of a ship's course, or across its deck. “The damaged mainmast fell athwart the deck, destroying the ship’s boat.”

Synonyms

overthwart transversely awry crosswise obliquely aslant

Etymology

From Late Middle English athwert, athirt, from a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwert (“crosswise; (cooking) across the grain”, adverb). Thwert is derived from thwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate, stubborn”, adjective), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”). The English word is analysable as a- (prefix meaning ‘in the direction of, toward’) + thwart (“placed or situated across something else”).
* Scots athort (“athwart”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. preposition Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.
  2. preposition Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance.
  3. adverb 1. Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
  4. adverb Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.

Etymology [Pref. a- + thwart.]

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

Sanskrit

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