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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between

UK /bɪˈtwiːn/ · US /bəˈtwin/ preposition, noun

Forms betweens betweene betwene b/w btwn btw

  1. preposition In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.) “John stood between Amy and Mary.    Let’s meet between two and three.”
  2. preposition Done together or reciprocally. “conversation between friends”
  3. preposition Shared in confidence. “Between you and me, I think the boss is crazy.  Let's keep this between ourselves.”
  4. preposition In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places). “He's between jobs right now.  The shuttle runs between the town and the airport.”
  5. preposition Combined (by effort or ownership). “Between us all, we shall succeed.  We've only got £5 between us.”
  6. preposition One of (representing a choice). “You must choose between him and me.”
  7. preposition Taking together the combined effect of. “Between the food and the card games, this proved to be the best birthday party I have ever had.”
  8. noun A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.

Synonyms

atween atwix atwixt betwixt betwixte 'tween

Etymology

From Middle English betwene, from Old English betwēonum (“between, among”, dative plural, literally “by the two, near both”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”) + *twīhnaz (“two each”), corresponding to be- + twain. Cognate with Scots between (“between”), Scots atween (“between”), Gothic 𐍄𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌹 (tweihnai, “two each”), Old English betweoh (“between”), Old English twinn (“double, twofold”). More at betwixt, twin.
More distantly related to Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through, across, by, over”) whence English dia- (“through, across, between”).
For the meaning development also compare with Mongolian хооронд (xoorond, “between”), connected with Mongolian хоёр (xojor, “two”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. preposition In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
  2. preposition Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.
  3. noun Intermediate time or space; interval. [Poetic & R.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS. betweónan, betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain, and cf. Atween, Betwixt.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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