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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averse

/əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/ adjective, verb

Forms averses aversing aversed

  1. adjective Having a repugnance or opposition of mind. “The board is not averse to further talks.”
  2. adjective Turned away or backward.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Lying on the opposite side (to or from).
  4. adjective (heraldry) Aversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete, rare) To turn away.

Synonyms

disliking disinclined fromward unwilling reluctant loath antipathetic antipathetical indisposed loth

Etymology

From Latin aversus, past participle of avertere (“to avert”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Turned away or backward. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.
  3. verb To turn away. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Etymology [L. aversus, p. p. of avertere. See Avert.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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