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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aver

UK /əˈvɜː/ · US /əˈvɝ/ verb, noun

Forms avers averring averred averrest averredst averreth

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To assert the truth of (something); to affirm (something) with confidence; to declare (something) in a positive manner.
  2. verb (ambitransitive, law) To justify or prove (an allegation or plea that one has made).
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so.
  4. noun (UK, dialectal, archaic) A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal.
  5. noun (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) An old, useless horse; a nag.

Synonyms

swear allege say affirm verify assert avow swan

Etymology

From Middle English averren, from Old French averer, from Early Medieval Latin advērō, a verb derived from Latin vērus (“true”). Compare Modern French avérer.

From Middle English aver, avere (“workhorse; any beast of burden (?); things which are owned, possessions, property, wealth; state of being rich, wealth; ownership, possession”) [and other forms], and then either:
* from Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin habēre (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-, *ǵʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”); or
* from Old English eafor (“workhorse; tenant’s obligation to transport goods”), further etymology uncertain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A work horse, or working ox. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]
  2. verb To assert, or prove, the truth of. [Obs.]
  3. verb To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify.

Etymology [OF. aver domestic animal, whence LL. averia, pl. cattle. See Habit, and cf. Average.]

Etymology [F. avérer, LL. adverare, averare; L. ad + versus true. See Verity.]

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