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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

lament

/ləˈmɛnt/ noun, verb

Forms laments lamenting lamented

  1. noun An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
  2. noun A song expressing grief.
  3. verb (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
  4. verb (transitive) To express great sorrow or regret over; to bewail.

Synonyms

grieve mourn aggrieve besorrow condole darken engrieve erme gloom grieven bleed moan remorse repent regret rue sigh sorrow wayment yearn lamentation plaint wail dirge coronach requiem threnody elegy keen deplore

Antonyms

cheer up gladden

Etymology

A back-formation from lamentation or else from Middle French lamenter and its etymon Latin lāmentor (“to wail, weep”), from lāmentum (“wailing, moaning, weeping”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
  2. verb To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
  3. noun Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
  4. noun An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

Etymology [F. lamenter, L. lamentari, fr. lamentum a lament.]

Etymology [L. lamentum. Cf. Lament, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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