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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“assayed” is a form of

assay

/ˈæseɪ/ noun, verb

Forms assays assaying assayed

  1. noun Trial, attempt.
  2. noun Examination and determination; test.
  3. noun The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
  4. noun Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
  5. noun Tested purity or value.
  6. noun The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
  7. noun The alloy or metal to be assayed.
  8. verb (transitive) To attempt (something).
  9. verb (archaic, intransitive) To try, attempt (to do something).
  10. verb (transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
  11. verb (obsolete, transitive) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
  12. verb To affect.
  13. verb To try tasting, as food or drink.

Synonyms

check try seek attempt essay

Etymology

From Middle English assay (noun) and assayen (verb), from Anglo-Norman assai (noun) and Anglo-Norman assaier (verb), from Old French essai. Doublet of essay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. [Obs.]
  3. verb To try; to attempt; to apply. [Obs. or Archaic]
  4. verb To affect. [Obs.]

Etymology [OF. asai, essai, trial, F. essa. See Essay, n.]

Etymology [OF. asaier, essaier, F. essayer, fr. essai. See Assay, n., Essay, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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