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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aspire

UK /əˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ · US /əˈspaɪɚ/ verb

Forms aspires aspiring aspired

  1. verb (intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. “to aspire to / for / after / to do something; to aspire that something happens”
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something).
  3. verb (transitive, intransitive, archaic, literary) To move upward; to be very tall.

Synonyms

crave pursue strive yearn dream ascend mount rise soar tower draw a bead on aim shoot for

Etymology

From Middle English aspiren, from Old French aspirer, from Latin aspīrō (“breathe on; approach; desire”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; --followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
  2. verb To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
  3. verb To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. [Obs.]
  4. noun Aspiration. [Obs.] Chapman.

Etymology [F. aspirer, L. aspirare. See Aspirate, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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