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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rove

UK /ɹəʊv/ · US /ɹoʊv/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of reeve rive

Forms roves roving roved

  1. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
  2. verb (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
  3. verb (transitive) To roam or wander through.
  4. verb (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
  5. verb To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  6. verb To draw through an eye or aperture.
  7. verb To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  8. verb To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
  9. noun A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
  10. noun A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
  11. noun The act of wandering; a ramble.
  12. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

roll wander swan stray tramp roam cast ramble range drift vagabond

Etymology

Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).

Inflected forms.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To draw through an eye or aperture.
  2. verb To draw out into falkes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.
  3. noun A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  4. noun A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and

Etymology [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]

Etymology [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See Reave Rob.]

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

Sanskrit

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