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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acquaint

/əˈkweɪnt/ verb, adjective

Forms acquaints acquainting acquainted

  1. verb (transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar. “I think you should acquaint him with the realities of the situation.”
  2. verb (transitive, archaic, followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; let know.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To familiarize; to accustom.
  4. adjective (now chiefly Scotland) Acquainted.

Synonyms

familiarize advise to familiarize to accustom apprise inform introduce present familiarise

Etymology

From Middle English aqueynten, acointen, from Old French acointier, from Early Medieval Latin accognitāre, from Late Latin accognitus, past participle of accognoscō, from Latin cognoscō, from nōscō. See also quaint, know.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Acquainted. [Obs.]
  2. verb To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; --followed by with.
  3. verb To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; --followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak.

Etymology [OF. acoint. See Acquaint, v. t.]

Etymology [OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF. acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See Quaint, Know.]

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

Sanskrit

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