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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mourn

UK /mɔːn/ · US /mɔɹn/ verb, noun

Forms mourns mourning mourned morne

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). “For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially. “In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.”
  3. verb (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
  4. verb (intransitive) To wear mourning.
  5. noun (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
  6. noun A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

Synonyms

grieve lament weep aggrieve besorrow condole darken engrieve erme gloom grieven bleed moan remorse repent regret rue sigh sorrow wayment

Etymology

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.
  2. verb To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
  3. verb To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
  4. verb To utter in a mournful manner or voice.

Etymology [AS. murnan; akin to OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. maúrnan.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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