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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presage

/ˈpɹɛsɪdʒ/ noun, verb

Forms presages presaging presaged præsage

  1. noun A warning of a future event; an omen.
  2. noun An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
  3. verb (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
  4. verb (intransitive) To make a prediction.
  5. verb (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Synonyms

foreshadow forespell portend omen portent prognostic prognostication prodigy bode auspicate prognosticate betoken augur foretell prefigure forecast predict

Etymology

From Middle English presage, from Latin praesāgium.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout --presage of victory." Milton.
  2. noun Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
  3. To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
  4. To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.

Etymology [F. présage, L. praesagium, from praesagire. See Presage, v. t.]

Etymology [F. présager, L. praesagire: prae before + sagire to perceive acutely or sharply. See Sagacious.]

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

Sanskrit

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