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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accost

UK /əˈkɒst/ · US /əˈkɔst/ verb, noun

Forms accosts accosting accosted

  1. verb (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. “A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.”
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
  3. verb (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
  5. verb (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  6. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  7. verb (transitive) To assault.
  8. verb (transitive) To solicit sexually.
  9. noun (rare) Address; greeting.
  10. noun An attack.

Synonyms

waylay address come up to hook solicit

Etymology

From Middle French accoster, acoster, from Old French acoster (“to stand beside”) (whence Medieval Latin accostare), from Old French a- + coste (“side, flank”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.
  2. verb To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.
  3. verb To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.
  4. noun Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.

Etymology [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.]

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

Sanskrit

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