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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

“burneth” is a form of

burn

UK /bɜːn/ · US /bɝn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms burns burning burned burnt burnest burnedst burntest burneth born burne brent

  1. noun A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. “She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.”
  2. noun A mark left behind by a burn; a scorch or scar caused by a burn. “Cut the cigarette burn out from the fabric.”
  3. noun An abrasion resembling a burn. “carpet burn, rope burn, rug burn, turf burn”
  4. noun (uncountable) A disease in vegetables, which causes discoloration that looks like a burn.
  5. noun A sensation resembling an injury from heat or an analogous force; the quality or nature of a burning sensation caused by capsaicin. “I dread the burn of the disinfectant where it enters an open wound.”
  6. noun A physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by a build-up of lactic acid. “One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn in your thighs!”
  7. noun (figurative) Anger, especially slowly mounting in intensity. “a slow burn”
  8. noun (slang, figurative) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
  9. verb (intransitive) To be consumed by fire or in flames. “He watched the house burn.”
  10. verb To contain a fire or coals. “The wood stove was burning, giving off plenty of heat.”
  11. verb To become overheated to the point of being unusable; to become scorched. “The grill was too hot and the steak burned.”
  12. verb To be executed by an electric chair. “In this state, he could burn for his crimes.”
  13. verb To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. “The child’s forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.”
  14. verb (figurative) To approach near to a concealed object which is sought, especially in certain games; to be so near as to be figuratively burnt by a hidden target. “You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re burning!”
  15. verb (figurative, US) To desire or ache for (something); to be intense, as a desire. “I burn for her touch.”
  16. verb (physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star; to undergo nuclear fusion or nuclear fission.
  17. noun (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
  18. proper noun A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
  19. proper noun A river in Dartmoor, Devon, England, a tributary of the River Tavy.
  20. proper noun A short river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.

Synonyms

brand burn up combust go up cinder forsweal incinerate singe torch burn away burn down burn to a crisp char up combure cremate forburn scathe fritter squander fire burning tan suntan sunburn burn mark glow bite sting cauterize cauterise

Etymology

From late Middle English burne, birne, metathetic form of brinne, brynne, a variant of brennen, from Old Norse brinna, brenna (“to burn”), from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil”). Doublet of brew.
The late metathesis of East Midland brin- to birn- (and subsequently burn-) parallels the phonological development of bird and dirt from brid and drit. As this metathetic form became the Chancery Standard, it displaced the semantic functions and weak conjugation paradigm of the native Old English bærnan (weak), alongside the surviving remnants of byrnan (strong).
Cognate with Cimbrian prönnan (“to burn”), Dutch barnen, branden (“to burn”), German brinnen (“to burn”), Luxembourgish brennen (“to burn”), Vilamovian brīn (“to burn”), Yiddish ברענען (brenen, “to burn”), Danish brænde (“to burn”), Faroese and Icelandic brenna (“to burn”), Norwegian Bokmål brenne (“to burn”), Norwegian Nynorsk brenna, brenne (“to burn”), Swedish brinna (“to burn”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (brinnan, “to burn”); also Cornish bros (“blazing, boiling”), Irish bruth (“heat; eruption; surf”), Welsh brwd (“eager, keen; passionate, zealous”), Latin defrutum (“grape must reduced by boiling”), Ancient Greek πορφύρω (porphúrō, “to boil, heave”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium; mouth burning”), Armenian աղբյուր (aġbyur, “fountain, spring”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurvan, “runnel, spring”). More at brew.

From Northern Middle English burn, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brunō.
Cognate with Scots burn (“stream”), Cimbrian, Mòcheno prunn (“well, spring”), Dutch bron (“well”), German Bronnen, Brun, Brunnen (“well”), Luxembourgish Buer, Bur (“well”), Yiddish ברונעם (brunem, “well”), Danish brønd (“well”), Faroese brunnur, bruður (“well”), Icelandic brunnur (“well”), Norwegian Bokmål, Scanian brønn (“well”), Norwegian Nynorsk brunn, brønn (“well”), Swedish brunn (“well”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰 (brunna, “source, wellspring”), Crimean Gothic brunna (“spring, fountain, source”). Also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian աղբիւր (ałbiwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew.

* The surname is of English origin, variant of Bourne.
* The placename in Yorkshire is likely related to the suffix -burn, found in placenames such as Woodburn, Glusburn, etc., from burn (“stream”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; --frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." Shak.
  2. verb To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
  3. verb To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." Deut. ix. 15.
  4. verb To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.

Etymology [OE. bernen, brennen, v.t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.]

Etymology [See 1st Bourn.]

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

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