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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harm

UK /hɑːm/ · US /hɑɹm/ noun, verb

Forms harms harming harmed harme

  1. noun Physical injury; hurt; damage. “No harm came to my possessions.”
  2. noun Emotional or figurative hurt. “Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.”
  3. noun Detriment; misfortune. “I wish him no harm.”
  4. noun That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  5. verb To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.

Synonyms

abuse annoy bewound damage damnify dere do damage to do for do ill do violence to forwork grieve harrow hurt injure maul mayhem misdo put someone in hospital scaith injury trauma impairment scathe

Antonyms

heal repair

Etymology

From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”). Cognate with Dutch harm (“harm”), German Harm (“harm”), Danish harme (“indignation, resentment”), Icelandic harmur (“sorrow, grief”), Swedish harm (“anger, indignation, harm”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
  2. noun That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
  3. verb To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

Etymology [OE.harm, hearm, AS.hearm; akin to OS. harm, G. harm grief, Icel. harmr, Dan. harme, Sw. harm; cf. OSlav. & Russ. sram' shame, Skr. crama toil, fatigue.]

Etymology [OE. harmen, AS. hearmian. See Harm, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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