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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wander

UK /ˈwɒndə/ · US /ˈwɑndɚ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms wanders wandering wandered

  1. verb (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. “to wander over the fields”
  2. verb (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err. “A writer wanders from his subject.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To commit adultery.
  4. verb (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  5. verb (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
  6. noun (countable) An act or instance of wandering. “to go for a wander in the park”
  7. noun (uncountable, of a value, signal or similar) Deviation from a correct or normal value.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

err roam cheat drift distract scatter roll swan stray tramp cast ramble rove range vagabond cheat on cuckold betray weave wind thread meander digress divagate

Etymology

From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
  2. verb To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
  3. verb To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." Milton.

Etymology [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind to turn.]

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

Sanskrit

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