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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abide

/əˈbaɪd/ verb

Forms abides abiding abode abided abid abidden

  1. verb (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand. “The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.”
  2. verb (transitive) To bear patiently. “"I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.”
  3. verb (transitive) To pay for; to take the consequences of.
  4. verb Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”). “The new teacher was strict and the students did not want to abide by his rules.”
  5. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
  6. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
  7. verb (intransitive, archaic, Scotland) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
  8. verb (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode.

Synonyms

hold on resist astand bear up carry on continue endure follow up hang in there hold out hold the line hold up keep a stiff upper lip keep trying keep up persevere persist plod plug plug away bide stay digest stick out stomach bear stand tolerate support brook

Etymology

From Middle English abyden, from Old English ābīdan (“to abide, wait, remain, delay, remain behind; survive; wait for, await; expect”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀbīdan, from Proto-Germanic *uzbīdaną (“to expect, tolerate”), equivalent to a- + bide.
Cognate with Scots abide (“to abide, remain”), Middle High German erbīten (“to await, expect”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (usbeidan, “to expect, await, have patience”). The sense of pay for is due to influence from aby.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. verb To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; --with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.
  3. verb To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time. "I will abide the coming of my lord." Tennyson.
  4. verb To endure; to sustain; to submit to. [Thou] shalt abide her judgment on it. Tennyson.

Etymology [AS. abidan; pref. a- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + bidan to bide. See Bide.]

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

Sanskrit

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