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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gift

/ɡɪft/ noun, verb

Forms gifts gifting gifted yift

  1. noun Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. “She gave him a cell phone as a birthday gift.”
  2. noun A talent or natural ability. “She had a gift for playing the flute.”
  3. noun Something gained incidentally, without effort.
  4. noun The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing. “The office is in the gift of the President.”
  5. noun (Australia) A footrace, often a short one with a prize, sometimes with a handicap system whereby runners start from different positions based on their past performance.
  6. verb (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
  7. verb (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

Synonyms

gift For beneficial actions ability aptitude knack talent strength favor benefaction boon concession donative fairing grant present tithing contribute donate give endowment natural endowment giving endow indue empower invest endue

Etymology

From Middle English yifte, ȝift, partly from Old English ġift, ġyft (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give + -t (etymologically yive + -t).
Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Luxembourgish Gëft (“poison”), Vilamovian gejft, gyjft (“poison”), Yiddish גיפֿט (gift, “poison”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gift (“poison”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift. Distantly related to English habit, from Latin habitus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
  2. noun The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
  3. verb To endow with some power or faculty.

Etymology [OE. gift, yift, yeft, AS. gift, fr. gifan to give; akin to D. & G. gift, Icel. gift, gipt, Goth. gifts (in comp.). See Give, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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