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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purport

UK /pəˈpɔːt/ · US /pɚˈpɔɹt/ verb, noun

Forms purports purporting purported

  1. verb (transitive) To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately). [(usually) with to (+ infinitive)] “He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.”
  2. verb To intend. [(usually) with to (+ infinitive)] “He purported to become an international man of affairs.”
  3. noun Import, an intention or purpose.
  4. noun (obsolete) A disguise; a covering.

Synonyms

intent spirit drift aim purpose propose

Etymology

From Middle English purporten, from Anglo-Norman purporter and Old French porporter (“convey, contain, carry”), from pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin portō (“carry”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
  2. noun Disguise; covering. [Obs.]
  3. verb To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; - -often with an object clause or infinitive.

Etymology [OF. purport; pur, pour, for (L. pro) + porter to bear, carry. See Port demeanor.]

Etymology [OF. purporter, pourporter. See Purport, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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