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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respond

UK /ɹɪˈspɒnd/ · US /ɹɪˈspɑnd/ verb, noun

Forms responds responding responded

  1. verb (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply. “to respond to a question or an argument”
  2. verb (intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
  4. verb (transitive) To satisfy; to answer. “The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To be liable for payment.
  6. noun A response.
  7. noun A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
  8. noun (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

Synonyms

answer retort answer back react rejoin counter return reply snap back comeback response account rejoinder rebuttal riposte reaction

Etymology

From Middle English respounden, from Old French respondre, from Late Latin respondō, from Latin respondeō. Cf. Modern French répondre.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
  2. verb To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
  3. verb To answer; to reply.
  4. verb To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [R.]

Etymology [OF. respondre, F. répondre, fr. L. respondere, responsum; pref. re- re- + spondere to promise. See Sponsor.]

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

Sanskrit

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