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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away

/əˈweɪ/ adverb, interjection, adjective, verb

Forms aways awaying awayed

  1. adverb From a place, hence. “He went away on vacation.”
  2. adverb Aside; off; in another direction. “I tried to approach him, but he turned away.”
  3. adverb Aside, so as to discard something. “throw away, chuck away, toss away”
  4. adverb At a stated distance in time or space. “Christmas is only two weeks away.”
  5. adverb In or to something's usual or proper storage place. “I'll dry the dishes and you put them away.”
  6. adverb In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place. “The jewels were locked away in the safe.”
  7. adverb From a state or condition of being; out of existence. “fade away, die away”
  8. adverb So as to remove or use up something. “The weather has worn away the inscription, and it is no longer legible.”
  9. interjection (chiefly Scotland, dismissal) Away with you! Go away! Begone!
  10. adjective Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation. “The master is away from home on a course.”
  11. adjective At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively. “He's miles away by now.”
  12. adjective (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory. “This is the entrance for away supporters.”
  13. adjective (baseball, following the noun modified) Out. “Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.”
  14. adjective (golf) Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
  15. verb (intransitive, poetic or Scotland) To depart; to go to another place. “At 9 o'clock sharp he awayed to bed.”

Synonyms

at bay off off- ab- apo- de- out- afield outside forth out aside by

Antonyms

home

Etymology

From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + way.
Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).

See aweigh.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb From a place; hence.
  2. adverb Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

Etymology [AS. aweg, anweg, onweg; on on + weg way.]

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

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