Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

because

[bɪˈkɵz] conjunction, adverb, interjection, preposition

Forms bycause becos 'cause cause cos cuz coz 'cos 'cuz 'coz b/c bc bcos bcoz bcs bcz

conjunction By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. “I hid myself because I was afraid.”
conjunction As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that. “It must be broken, because I pressed the button and nothing happened.”
conjunction (obsolete) So that, in order that.
adverb On account, for sake [with of]. “My life is ruined because of you!”
adverb (obsolete) For the reason [with that].
interjection Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer to a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".
preposition (colloquial, Internet slang) On account of, because of. “He rejected me because revenge, I guess.”

Synonyms

From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.

conjunction By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton.
conjunction In order that; that. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. bycause; by + cause.]

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

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

करण्डिन् karaṇḍin a fish; (so called because caught in a basket?).
सैमन्तिक saimantika red-lead (so called because used to make a mark along the parting of the hair).
कार्त्तिकेय kārttikeya name of Skanda, the god of war, so called because reared by the six Kṛttikās or Pleiades …
चमकसूक्त camaka-sūkta name of several verses of the Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā, so called because the words ca me are repeated in them.
गर्तिका gartikā a weaver's workshop (so called because a weaver sits at his loom with his feet in a hole below the level of …
वैश्वी vaiśvī name of the Nakṣatra called Uttarā Aṣāḍhā or Uttarāṣāḍhā (so called because the Viśva-devas preside over thi…
उज्जिति uj-jiti victory; name of certain verses in the Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā, so called because the words udajayat tam ujjeṣam …
यस्मात् yasmāt (abl. of 3. ya or yad; correlative of tasmāt, q.v.), from which, from which cause, since, as, because; that,…