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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entertain

UK /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ · US /ˌɛntɚˈteɪn/ verb, noun

Forms entertains entertaining entertained entertaine

  1. verb (transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably. “to entertain friends with lively conversation”
  2. verb (transitive and intransitive) To have someone over at one's home, or some other venue, for a party or visit. “They enjoy entertaining a lot.”
  3. verb (transitive) To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind. “The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.”
  4. verb (obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
  5. verb (obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
  6. verb (obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
  7. verb (Philippines, Malaysia, India, sometimes in business) To help; to assist; to answer a phone call.
  8. noun (obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
  9. noun (obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.

Synonyms

think of toy with flirt with think about harbor harbour hold nurse

Etymology

From Middle English entertenen, from Middle French entretenir, from Old French entretenir, from entre (“among”) + tenir (“to hold”), from Latin inter + teneō (“hold, keep”). For the noun, compare French entretien.
Sense of answering a phone call in Malaysian English is influenced by Malay layan “to serve, to attend to or engage with something”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.
  2. verb To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.
  3. verb To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.
  4. noun Entertainment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [F. entretenir; entre between (L. inter) + tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Tenable.]

Etymology [Cf. F. entretien, fr. entretenir.]

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

Sanskrit

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