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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greet

/ɡɹiːt/ verb, adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms greets greeting greeted grat grutten

  1. verb (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
  2. verb (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet.
  3. verb (transitive) To accost; to address.
  4. verb (intransitive, archaic) To meet and give salutations.
  5. verb (transitive, figurative) To be perceived by (someone). “A brilliant dawn greeted her eyes as she looked out of the window.”
  6. adjective (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.
  7. verb (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
  8. noun (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun A village in Winchcombe parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0229).
  11. proper noun A hamlet in Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9255)
  12. proper noun A suburb in the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1084).
  13. proper noun A minor river in Nottinghamshire, England, which joins the River Trent at Fiskerton (Notts.).

Synonyms

hail beweep burst into tears cry cry one's eyes out shed a tear shed tears squirt some wail weep recognize recognise

Etymology

From Middle English greten, from Old English grētan, from Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną.
Cognate with Dutch groeten, German grüßen, grüssen.

From Middle English greet, grete (“great”).

From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan, grǣtan (itself from Proto-West Germanic *grātan); and of Old English grēotan (itself from *greutan), both meaning "to weep, lament".
Possibly reinforced in Northern England and Scotland by Old Norse gráta, whence also Danish græde, Norwegian gråte, Swedish gråta, all meaning "to cry, to weep".

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Great. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. verb To weep; to cry; to lament. [Obs. or Scot.] [Written also greit.] Spenser.
  3. noun Mourning. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. verb To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

Etymology [OE. greten, AS. grtan, grlan; akin to Icel. grata, Sw. gita, Dan. grde, Goth. grctan; cf. Skr. hrd to sound, roar. sq. root50.]

Etymology [OE. greten, AS. grtan to address, approach; akin to OS. gr, LG gröten, D. groeten, OHG. gruozzen, G. grüssen.]

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

Sanskrit

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