Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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obeisance

UK /əʊˈbeɪ.səns/ · US /oʊˈbeɪ.səns/ noun

Forms obeisances obeisaunce obeissance abaisance

noun Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.
noun An obedient attitude.

Synonyms

bow bowing obedience

Etymology

From Middle English obeisaunce (“obedience, obeisance”), from Old French obeïssance, derived from obeïssant (“obedient”), participle of obeïr (“to obey”), from Latin oboediō, obēdiō; ob- (“to, for”) + audiō (“to hear”). Cognate with obedience.

Webster’s 1913

noun Obedience. [Obs.] Chaucer.
noun A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.

Etymology [F. obéissance obedience, fr. obéissant. See Obey, and cf. Obedience, Abaisance.]

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

Sanskrit

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

नमसान namasāna paying obeisance, worshipping.
प्रत्यर्चन praty-arcana returning a salutation or obeisance.
प्रतिप्रणाम prati-praṇāma a bow or obeisance in return, saluting in turn.
नमित namita bowed, bent down, making salutation or obeisance.
प्रणम्य pra-ṇamya having bowed, having done homage or made obeisance.
विनीति vi-nīti training, good behaviour, reverence, obeisance, homage.
नमनीय namanīya to be bowed down to, one to whom one must pay obeisance, venerable.
नमस्यत् namasyat saluting reverentially, making obeisance, bowing to, paying adoration.

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