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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company

UK /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/ · US /ˈkʌmpəni/ noun, verb

Forms companies companying companied companie

  1. noun A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. “a company of knights”
  2. noun A group of performing artists who put on shows together. “a company of actors”
  3. noun (nautical, military) The crew of a ship. “a ship's company”
  4. noun (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion. “the boys in Company C”
  5. noun A unit of firefighters and their equipment. “It took six companies to put out the fire.”
  6. noun (espionage, informal) An intelligence service. “As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.”
  7. noun (aviation, informal) A specific aircraft or its airline, usually used in air traffic communications to refer conveniently to another aircraft operated by the same airline.
  8. noun A small group of birds or animals.
  9. verb (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
  10. verb (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
  11. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
  12. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

Synonyms

business enterprise firm corporation association companionship fellowship organization society friendship mateship attend escort go with fornicate have sex make love troupe caller party ship's company companion accompany keep company

Etymology

From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompaying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse. Shak.
  2. noun A companion or companions.
  3. verb To accompany or go with; to be companion to. [Obs.]
  4. verb To associate.

Etymology [F. compagnie, fr. OF. compaing. See Companion.]

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

Sanskrit

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