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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await

/əˈweɪt/ verb, noun

Forms awaits awaiting awaited

  1. verb (transitive, formal) To wait for. “I await your reply to my letter.”
  2. verb (transitive) To expect.
  3. verb (transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. “Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.”
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
  5. verb (intransitive) To watch, observe.
  6. verb (intransitive) To wait; to stay in waiting. “These are exotic lands where great adventures await.”
  7. noun (obsolete) A waiting for; ambush.
  8. noun (obsolete, uncountable) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.

Synonyms

wait for attend to anticipate listen service expect look wait

Etymology

From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To watch for; to look out for. [Obs.]
  2. verb To wait on, serve, or attend. [Obs.]
  3. verb To watch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  4. verb To wait (on or upon). [Obs.]

Etymology [OF. awaitier, agaitier; (L. ad) + waitier, gaitier to watch, F. guetter. See Wait.]

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

Sanskrit

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