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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sigh

/saɪ/ verb, noun, interjection

Forms sighs sighing sighed sighest sighedst sigheth

  1. verb (intransitive) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like. “When she saw it wasn't damaged, she sighed with relief.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
  3. verb (transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  4. verb (intransitive) To make a sound like sighing. “The wind sighed in the trees.”
  5. verb (transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs. “She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.”
  6. verb (transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs. “"I guess I have no choice," she sighed.”
  7. noun A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
  8. noun (figurative) a manifestation of grief; a lament.
  9. noun (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
  10. interjection An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts. “Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.”

Synonyms

suspire sithe yearn aggrieve besorrow condole darken engrieve erme gloom grieve grieven bleed lament moan mourn remorse repent regret rue suspiration

Etymology

From Middle English sighen (“to sigh”), back-formation from sighte, past tense form of siken, from Old English sīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour out”).

From Middle English sighe (“sigh”), from sighen (“to sigh”) (see ).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
  2. verb Hence, to lament; to grieve.
  3. verb To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
  4. verb To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

Etymology [OE. sighen, si; cf. also OE. siken, AS. sican, and OE. sighten, si, sichten, AS. siccettan; all, perhaps, of imitative origin.]

Etymology [OE. sigh; cf. OE. sik. See Sigh, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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