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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dote

UK /dəʊt/ · US /doʊt/ verb, noun

Forms dotes doting doted doat

  1. verb (intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. “Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.”
  2. verb (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
  3. verb (intransitive, of trees, rare or obsolete) To rot, decay.
  4. noun (countable, Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
  5. noun (countable, obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
  6. noun (uncountable, rare) Decay in a tree.
  7. noun (obsolete) Dowry.
  8. verb (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

Synonyms

adore love dobby mimmerkin

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).
The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from Middle English dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb.

From Middle English dote (“endowment”) (c. 1450), from Middle French dote (modern dot), from Latin dos.

From Middle French doter, Latin dōtāre.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. Wyatt.
  2. noun pl.
  3. verb To act foolishly. [Obs.]
  4. verb To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.

Etymology [See Dot dowry.]

Etymology [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source.]

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