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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Doth” is a form of

do

UK /dəʊ/ · US /doʊ/ verb, noun, numeral

Forms does doing did done doest dost didst doeth doth dos do's doos de dee doh do.

  1. verb A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be. “Do you go there often?”
  2. verb A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods. “I do not go there often.”
  3. verb A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods. “But I do go sometimes.”
  4. verb (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE. “I play tennis; she does too.”
  5. verb (modal, interrogative, informal) Should; ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated). “Do I just call every number on the list each time?”
  6. verb (dialectal) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  7. verb (transitive) To perform; to execute. “If you want something done, do it yourself.”
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To cause or make (someone) (do something).
  9. noun (UK, informal) A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality. “We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.”
  10. noun (chiefly fossilized) Something that can or should be done. “Don’t forget the dos and don’ts.”
  11. noun (chiefly obsolete, fossilized in the UK) Something that has been done. “"How come you quit?" "I'm moving to London." "Fair dos."”
  12. noun (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
  13. noun (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
  14. noun (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
  15. noun (UK, slang) A homicide.
  16. noun (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
  17. numeral The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12.
  18. noun (US) a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

Synonyms

should accomplish carry out functionate cook serve imitate personate take off do in murder off rub out annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bump off bash brawl doh ut Doctor of Osteopathy make perform execute fare make out

Antonyms

don't

Etymology

From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do, make”).
For senses 4 and 5, compare Old Norse duga, also Northern English dow.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, an unexpected development from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē (the expected reflex would be *ded), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and affirmative sentences (e.g. "Do you like painting?" "Yes, I do"), existing in some form in most Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic. It is first recorded in Middle English, where it may have marked the perfective aspect, though in some cases the meaning seems to be imperfective. In Early Modern English, any meaning in such contexts was lost, making it a dummy auxiliary, and soon thereafter its use became mandatory in most questions and negations.
Doublets include deed, deem, and -dom, but not deal.
Other cognates include, via Latin, English feast, festival, fair (“celebration”), via Greek, English theo-, theme, thesis, and Sanskrit दधाति (dadhāti, “to put”), धातृ (dhātṛ, “creator”) and धातु (dhātu, “layer, element, root”).

Coined by Italian musicologist Giovanni Battista Doni in 1635 as an easier-to-sing open-syllable revision to the solmization ut of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin Dominus (“The Lord”) (speculated by some to be an ulterior abbreviation of Giovanni Battista Doni) on the pattern of other Latinate solfège with the stated justification that God is the tonic and root of the world.

Shortening of dozen.

Short for ditto.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An abbreviation of Ditto.
  2. noun A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.
  3. verb To place; to put. [Obs.] Tale of a Usurer (about 1330).
  4. verb To cause; to make; --with an infinitive. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. d; akin to D. doen, OS. duan, OHG. tuon, G. thun, Lith. deti, OSlav. d, OIr. dénim I do, Gr. dha, and to E. suffix -dom, and prob. to L. facere to do, E. fact, and perh. to L. -dere in some compounfds, as addere to add, credere to trust. Deed, Deem, Doom, Fact, Creed, Theme.]

Etymology [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of use, AS. dugan. See Doughty.]

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