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

“dan” is a form of

than

/ðæn/ conjunction, preposition, adverb, proper noun

Forms Thans 'n thanne then

  1. conjunction Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. “Profits were higher than forecast.”
  2. conjunction (obsolete outside dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
  3. preposition Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates. “Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.”
  4. adverb (now chiefly dialectal or a misspelling) At that time; then.
  5. proper noun A surname.
  6. proper noun Thangadh, a town in the Indian state of Gujarat.
  7. proper noun A village in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

Etymology

From Middle English than, thanne (“than; then”), from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then; when; than”), from Proto-West Germanic *þannē, an alteration of *þan (“then; than”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then; than”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“that”, demonstrative pronoun).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“then; than”), German denn (“for; so”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.

Borrowing from Burmese သန်း (san:) or Khmer ថន (thɑɑn).

Webster’s 1913

  1. conjunction A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.
  2. adverb Then. See Then. [Obs.] Gower.

Etymology [OE. than, thon, then, thanne, thonne, thenne, than, then, AS. thanne, thonne, th\'91nne; akin to D. dan, OHG. danne, G. dann then, denn than, for, Goth. Þan then, and to E. the, there, that. See That, and cf. Then.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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