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

“feasts” is a form of

feast

/ˈfiːst/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms feasts feasting feasted

  1. noun A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
  2. noun A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. “We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.”
  3. noun (figurative) Something delightful and satisfying. “It was a feast for the eyes.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal. “I feasted on turkey and dumplings.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
  6. verb (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone). “We feasted them after the victory.”
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
  8. proper noun A surname from Middle English.
  9. proper noun (Baháʼí Faith) A Baháʼí community meeting; occuring every nineteen days.

Synonyms

banquet spread fete fiesta junket feed

Etymology

From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.

From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin festāre, from the noun. See above.

From either Middle English fist (“fist”), perhaps a nickname for an aggressive person, or from Middle English fest (“fart”).
The Baháʼí sense is a calque of Calque of Persian ضیافت (ziyâfat).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
  2. noun A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.
  3. verb To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
  4. verb To be highly gratified or delighted.

Etymology [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fair, n., Festal, F.]

Etymology [OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. fêter to celebrate a holiday. See Feast, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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