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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moan

UK /məʊn/ · US /moʊn/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms moans moaning moaned moanest moanedst moaneth

  1. noun A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure. “let out a deep moan”
  2. noun (obsolete) A lament or sorrow. “to make one's moan”
  3. verb (transitive, chiefly UK) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
  4. verb (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve.
  5. verb (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. “She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.”
  6. verb (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. “‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.”
  7. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
  9. adjective Of or pertaining to a moa.

Synonyms

lament aggrieve besorrow condole darken engrieve erme gloom grieve grieven bleed mourn remorse repent regret rue sigh sorrow wayment yearn groan

Etymology

From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
  2. verb To emit a sound like moan; --said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
  3. verb To bewail audibly; to lament.
  4. verb To afflict; to distress. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. m to moan, also, to mean; but in the latter sense perh. a different word. Cf. Mean to intend.]

Etymology [OE. mone. See Moan, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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