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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chant

UK /t͡ʃɑːnt/ · US /t͡ʃænt/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms chants chanting chanted chaunt

  1. verb To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
  2. verb To sing or intone sacred text.
  3. verb To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group. “The football fans chanted insults at the referee.”
  4. verb (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
  5. noun Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
  6. noun (music) A short and simple melody to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited.
  7. noun (music, Anglicanism) A harmonized melody used in Anglican chant, usually split into two two-bar phrases, to which the words of a psalm are sung by a choir; typically, each musical phrase corresponds to the text of half of a verse.
  8. noun Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
  9. noun A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
  10. proper noun A surname from French.

Synonyms

intone intonate cantillate tone

Etymology

From Middle English chaunten, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre (“sing”). Doublet of cant.

Probably a nickname from French chant (“song, melody”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
  2. verb To celebrate in song.
  3. verb To make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the sound of the viol." Amos vi. 5.
  4. verb To sing, as in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.

Etymology [F. chanter, fr. L. cantare, intens. of canere to sing. Cf. Cant affected speaking, and see Hen.]

Etymology [F. chant, fr. L. cantus singing, song, fr. canere to sing. See Chant, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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