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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“abodes” is a form of

abode

UK /əˈbəʊd/ · US /əˈboʊd/ noun, verb

Also a form of abide

Forms abodes aboding aboded aboad abood

  1. noun (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
  2. noun (dated or law) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  3. noun (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation. “of no fixed abode”
  4. noun (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
  6. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To be ominous.

Synonyms

crib digs domicile dwelling flop habitation home homestead livingplace pad pied-à-terre place quarters residence woning dwelling house

Etymology

From Middle English abod, abad, from Old English *ābād, related to ābīdan (“to abide”); see abide. Cognate with Scots abade, abaid (“abode”). For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.

From an alteration (with bode) of Middle English abeden (“to announce”), from Old English ābēodan (“to command, proclaim”), from a- + bēodan (“to command, proclaim”). Superficial analysis is a- + bode (“presage, portend, announce”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. of Abide.
  2. noun Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. noun Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  4. noun An omen. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See Abide. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide.]

Etymology [See Bode, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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