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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whither

/ˈwɪðəː/ adverb, noun, verb

Forms whithers whithering whithered wuther

  1. adverb To what place; where. “Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?”
  2. adverb (figurative, also humorous) To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.
  3. adverb To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.
  4. adverb To the place in or to which.
  5. adverb (generally) In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.
  6. noun (formal, archaic except literary or poetic) A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.
  7. verb To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
  8. verb To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
  9. verb To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
  10. verb To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
  11. verb Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
  12. noun A state of rushed action; a haste, a hurry; also, a state of anger or excitement.
  13. noun A forceful blow or hit.
  14. noun An act of shaking (vigorously); a shiver, a tremble; also, a slight bout of discomfort or illness.
  15. noun The sound of something moving quickly; a rush, a whiz.
  16. noun A gust of wind; a bluster.

Synonyms

whithersoever

Antonyms

whence

Etymology

From Middle English whider (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where, to wherever”), from Old English hwider, hwæder (“to what place, where”), from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê (“to what place, where”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (“what; which”), from *kʷ- (the primary interrogative root).

The verb is borrowed from Scots whidder, whither (“(of the wind) to bluster; to move quickly”), a frequentative form of whid (“(of wind) to gust; to move quickly”), of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hviða (“gust of wind”).
Related to Middle English hwiþa, whyȝt (“breeze; wind”), Old English hwiþa, hwiþu, hweoþu (“breeze”). The noun is derived from the verb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb To what place; --used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou "Whider may I flee" Chaucer.
  2. adverb To what or which place; --used relatively.

Etymology [OE. whider. AS. hwider; akin to E. where, who; cf. Goth. hvadre whither. See Who, and cf. Hither, Thither.]

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

Sanskrit

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