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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guarantee

/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ noun, verb

Forms guarantees guaranteeing guaranteed

  1. noun Anything that assures a certain outcome. “Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match?”
  2. noun A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
  3. noun (specifically) A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty. “The cooker comes with a five-year guarantee.”
  4. noun The person to whom a guarantee is made.
  5. noun (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
  6. verb To give an assurance that something will be done right.
  7. verb To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
  8. verb To make something certain. “The long sunny days guarantee a good crop.”

Synonyms

warranty assure warrant vouch warrantee guaranty ensure insure secure undertake

Etymology

From Old French guarantie (perhaps via a later Spanish garante), from the verb guarantir (“to protect, assure, vouch for”), ultimately from Old Frankish *warjand, *warand (“a warrant”), or from guaranty. Doublet of guaranty and warranty.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty.
  2. noun One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor. South.
  3. verb In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty.

Etymology [For guaranty, prob. influenced by words like assignee, lessee, etc. See Guaranty, and cf. Warrantee.]

Etymology [From Guarantee, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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