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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reciprocate

/ɹɪˈsɪpɹəˌkeɪt/ verb

Forms reciprocates reciprocating reciprocated

  1. verb (transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.
  2. verb To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift. “I gave them apples from my tree; they reciprocated with a pie and some apple jelly.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston. “a reciprocating engine”
  4. verb (intransitive) To counter, retort or retaliate.

Synonyms

give as good as one gets respond in kind

Etymology

From Latin recīprocātus, perfect passive participle of recīprocō (“to move back and forth”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from reciprocus (“back an forth, reciprocal, alternating”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), itself possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”). See also reciprocal. Compare French réciproquer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
  2. verb To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.

Etymology [L. reciprocatus, p. p. of reciprocare. See Reciprocal.]

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