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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rely

/ɹɪˈlaɪ/ verb

Forms relies relying relied

  1. verb (intransitive, with on or upon, formerly also with in) To trust; to have confidence in.
  2. verb (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend; to be dependent upon. “The city relies on the subway system.”
  3. verb (intransitive, with on or upon) To be intellectually contingent from; to stem from.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix, attach “Therefore [they] must needs relye their faithe upon the sillie Ministers faithlesse fidelitie.”
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To bring together again; to rally. “Petrius, that was a noble knyght, and bolde and hardy, relied his peple a-boute hym,”

Synonyms

depend hang hinge lean rest stay turn trust swear bank

Antonyms

stand on its own

Etymology

From Middle English relien, from Old French relier (“fasten, attach, rally, oblige”), from Latin religo (“fasten, bind fast”), from re- + ligo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; --with on, formerly also with in. Go in thy native innocence; rely On what thou hast of virtue. Milton.

Etymology [Pref. re- + lie to rest.]

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

Sanskrit

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