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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

redound

/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/ verb, noun

Forms redounds redounding redounded

  1. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
  2. verb (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
  3. verb (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
  4. verb (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.
  5. verb (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
  6. verb (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). “His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To arise from or out of something.
  8. verb (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
  9. noun A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
  2. verb To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
  3. noun The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
  4. noun Rebound; reverberation. [R.] Codrington.

Etymology [F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and cf. Redundant.]

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