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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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beet

/biːt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms beets bete

  1. noun Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar. “The beet is a hardy species.”
  2. noun (US, Canada) A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

common beet Beta vulgaris beetroot

Etymology

From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.

From Middle English beten, from Old English bētan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
  2. noun The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

Etymology [AS. bete, from L. beta.]

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

Sanskrit

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