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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augur

/ˈɔːɡə/ noun, verb

Forms augurs auguring augured

  1. noun A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.
  2. noun (Ancient Rome) An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.
  3. verb To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome. “Every circumstance augured success.”

Synonyms

auspex bode portend auspicate prognosticate omen presage betoken foreshadow foretell prefigure forecast predict

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augur, of uncertain origin; akin to augurō (“interpret omens”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
  2. noun One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
  3. verb To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
  4. verb To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

Etymology [L. Of uncertain origin: the first part of the word is perh. fr. L. avis bird, and the last syllable, gur, equiv. to the Skr. gar to call, akin to L. garrulus garrulous.]

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

Sanskrit

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