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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price

/ˈpɹaɪ̯s/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms prices pricing priced prize

  1. noun The cost required to gain possession of something.
  2. noun The cost of an action or deed. “I paid a high price for my folly.”
  3. noun Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
  4. verb (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
  5. verb (transitive) To find out what something costs “We priced a few laptops before deciding which one to buy.”
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  8. verb (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of. “to price eggs”
  9. proper noun A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic], anglicized from ap Rhys.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
  11. proper noun A township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Rusk County, Texas.
  13. proper noun A city, the county seat of Carbon County, Utah.
  14. proper noun A river in Utah, United States.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
  16. proper noun A town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

esteem evaluate worthen appraise apprise apprize assess judge prize rate valuate value weigh monetary value cost terms damage toll Leontyne Price Mary Leontyne Price

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. "Buy wine and milk without money and without price." Isa. lv. 1.
  2. noun Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
  3. verb To pay the price of. [Obs.]
  4. verb To set a price on; to value. See Prize.

Etymology [OE. pris, OF. pris, F. prix, L. pretium; cf. Gr. pa to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, Praise, n. & v., Precious, Prize.]

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

Sanskrit

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