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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otherwise

UK /ˈʌð.əˌwaɪz/ · US /ˈʌð.ɚˌwaɪz/ adverb, adjective

adverb (manner) Differently, in another way. “You may have a point, but I think otherwise.”
adverb (conjunctive) In different circumstances; or else. “I’m not well today, otherwise I would have helped.”
adverb (conjunctive) In all other respects; apart from that; except for this. “He lost his temper once in a while. Otherwise he behaved rationally.”
adjective Other than supposed; different. “He said he didn’t do it, but the evidence was otherwise.”

Synonyms

elsewise contrarily contrastingly differently other than

Antonyms

likewise thuswise nohow in no way not at all by no means

Etymology

From Middle English otherwise, othre wise, from Old English on ōþre wīsan (literally “in (on) other/different manner”); equivalent to other + -wise. Compare West Frisian yn oarwei (“otherwise”), Icelandic öðruvísi (“different”).

Webster’s 1913

adverb In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer.
adverb In other respects.

Etymology [Other + wise manner.]

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

Sanskrit

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

अनेव an-eva otherwise (?), or (?).
असञ्ज्ञिसत्त्व a-sañjñi-sattva a class of Buddhist divinities (otherwise a-raṅgi-sattva ).
प्रत्युत praty-uta on the contrary, rather, aye, even; on the other hand, otherwise.
अवष्वन् ava-ṣvan -ṣvaṇati, -ṇitum, to smack (one's lips) or otherwise make a noise in eating.
उपलम्भ upa-lambha acquisition; apprehension, conception, comprehension otherwise than from memory.
अवका avakā a grassy plant growing in marshy land, Blyxa Octandra Rich; otherwise called Śaivāla.
ऐकान्यिक aikānyika one who commits a single error in reading (who makes one thing another or otherwise than right).
अवस्वन् ava-svan -svanati, -nitum, to sound, to smack (the lips) or otherwise make a noise in eating. See ava-ṣvan.

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