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.

instead

/ɪnˈstɛd/ adverb

Forms enstead in steed in stead 'nstead

adverb In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative. “I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead.”

Synonyms

From in + stead, from Middle English ine (“in”) + stede (“stead”). Related to German statt.

adverb In the place or room; --usually followed by of. Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40.
adverb Equivalent; equal to; --usually with of. [R.]

Etymology [Pref. in- + stead place.]

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

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

कालिम्मन्या kālim-manyā ( kālim instead of kālīm ), thinking one's self to be Kālī, regarding one's self as Kālī.
अनुकल्प anu-kalpa permission to adopt an alternative or substitute, as “instead of Kuśa grass you may use Dūrbā.”
उपजगती upa-jagatī a variety of the Triṣṭubh metre, in which three Pādas contain twelve syllables instead of eleven.
चुञ्चुरी cuñcurī a game, a kind of hazard played with tamarind seeds instead of dice; also cuñculi and cuñculī.
सर्जिका sarjikā natron, impure alkali or carbonate of soda (used in India instead of soap for cleaning linen etc.).
आदार ā-dāra allurement, attraction; (Sāy.) an instigator; name of a plant used instead of the Soma plant, if this cannot…
लेखनिक lekhanika one who makes another sign a document instead of himself, signing by proxy, or making a mark (from inability…
आयःशूलिक āyaḥśūlika active, diligent, indefatigable; ( as ), m. a man who, in order to obtain an object, uses forcible instead o…