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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regard

UK /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/ · US /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ noun, verb

Forms regards regarding regarded regarde reguard reguarde

  1. noun (countable) A steady look, a gaze.
  2. noun One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
  3. noun (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
  4. noun (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. “He is held in great regard in Whitehall.”
  5. verb (transitive) To look at; to observe. “She regarded us warily.”
  6. verb (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. “I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.”
  7. verb (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
  8. verb (transitive) To face toward.
  9. verb (transitive) To have to do with, to concern. “That argument does not regard the question.”
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
  11. noun (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.

Synonyms

esteem repute consideration onlook respect behold clock look geek kool squizz take a butcher's take a dekko take a gander vada viddy view hold account appraise attentiveness heed paying attention wish compliments gaze see consider reckon involve

Antonyms

neglect ignore brush off discount disregard dissemble despise misheed misregard pass pass by pay no heed

Etymology

From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Piecewise doublet of reward; compare also guard, ward, guardian, and so on.

From Middle English regarden, from Old French regarder, reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.

Popularized about 2022 along with regarded.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.
  2. verb Hence, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.]
  3. verb To look attentively; to consider; to notice. [Obs.] Shak.
  4. noun A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

Etymology [F. regarder; pref. re- re + garder to guard, heed, keep. See Guard, and cf. Reward.]

Etymology [F. regard See Regard, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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