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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autograph

UK /ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf/ · US /ˈɔtəɡɹæf/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms autographs autographing autographed

  1. noun A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person. “Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game.”
  2. noun (by extension, colloquial) A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval. “If you could just put your autograph on the ol’ contract, please…”
  3. noun A manuscript in the author’s handwriting; a handwritten copy.
  4. adjective Written in the author’s own handwriting.
  5. adjective (art) Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
  6. verb (transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book, etc.
  7. verb (transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting.

Synonyms

penmanship handwriting chirography signature inscription protograph holograph archetype original John Hancock inscribe

Etymology

From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.
  2. adjective In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

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

Sanskrit

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