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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deem

UK /diːm/ · US /dim/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms deems deeming deemed deemest deemedst deemeth

  1. verb (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account. “She deemed his efforts insufficient.”
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  6. noun (obsolete) An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

consider adjudge condemn rule on adjudicate arbitrate doom hear judge settle try convict damn sentence declare ordain account appraise count esteem hold view as take for

Etymology

From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”).
The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”), Finnish tuomita (“to judge”). It is also related to doom.

From Middle English deme, from the verb (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [Obs.]
  2. verb To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.
  3. verb To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.
  4. verb To pass judgment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [OE. demen to judge, condemn, AS. d, fr. d doom; akin to OFries. d, OS. ad, D. doemen, OHG. tuommen, Icel. dæma, Sw. dömma, Dan. dömme, Goth. d. See Doom, n., and cf. Doom, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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