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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quest

/kwɛst/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms quests questing quested

  1. noun A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. “the hero's quest”
  2. noun (video games, roleplaying games) A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
  3. noun The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit. “to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.”
  4. noun (obsolete) A request; a desire; a solicitation.
  5. noun (obsolete) A group of people conducting a search or inquiry.
  6. noun (obsolete) An inquest; a jury of inquest.
  7. verb (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  8. verb (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
  9. verb (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
  10. noun (education) A short test.
  11. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

emprise pursuit pursuance seeking bay request bespeak call for

Etymology

From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerō (“to ask, seek”). Doublet of question.

Blend of quiz + test, to avoid using the word test.

Borrowed from German Quest.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc. Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. Spenser.
  2. noun Request; desire; solicitation.
  3. verb To search for; to examine. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.
  4. verb To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. [R.]

Etymology [OF. queste, F. quête, fr. L. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, to ask. Cf. Query, Question.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. quester, F. quêter. See Quest, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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