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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bring

/ˈbɹɪŋ/ verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms brings bringing brought brang brung broughten bringed bringest broughtest bringeth

  1. verb (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. “Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.”
  2. verb (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute. “The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.”
  3. verb (transitive) To occasion or bring about. “Let's bring our differences to an issue.”
  4. verb (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
  5. verb To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  6. verb To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch. “What does coal bring per ton?”
  7. verb (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball. “The closer Jones can really bring it.”
  8. verb (chess) To move a piece into a more active position, esp. to initially develop it. “You want to bring the rook and then start pushing your pawns.”
  9. interjection The sound of a telephone ringing.
  10. proper noun A surname from German or Swedish.

Synonyms

ringaling tingaling ring-a-ding ding-a-ling convey take work play wreak make for get fetch land institute lend impart bestow contribute add bring in

Antonyms

take away

Etymology

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-.
Compare Scots bring, West Frisian bringe, Low German brengen, Dutch brengen, Afrikaans bring, German bringen; also Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”).

Onomatopoeia.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
  2. verb To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may. Bacon.

Etymology [OE. bringen, AS. bringan; akin to OS. brengian, D. brengen, Fries. brenga, OHG. bringan, G. bringen, Goth. briggan.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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