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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thither

UK /ˈðɪðə/ · US /ˈðɪðɚ/ adverb, adjective

Forms thithermost

  1. adverb (chiefly literary or law, archaic) To that place.
  2. adverb (archaic) To that point, end, or result. “The argument tended thither.”
  3. adjective (archaic) The farther, the other and more distant. “the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife”

Synonyms

there over there away there yonder farther

Antonyms

thence

Etymology

From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb To that place; --opposed to Ant: hither.
  2. adverb To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
  3. adjective Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; --a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells.
  4. adjective Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.

Etymology [OE. thider, AS. edhider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaedhra there, Goth. þaþro thence. See That, and The.]

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

Sanskrit

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