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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repay

/ɹiˈpeɪ/ verb

Forms repays repaying repaid repayed

  1. verb Synonym of pay back in all senses. “I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.”
  2. verb (transitive) To make worthwhile; to yield a result worth the effort; to pay off.
  3. verb (transitive) To give in return; requite.
  4. verb (nautical) To pay (cover with tar, pitch, etc.) again.

Synonyms

liquidate pay back in all senses refund return give back requite reward pay back retort come back riposte rejoin

Etymology

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
  2. verb To make return or requital for; to recompense; --in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.

Etymology [Pref. re- + pay: cf. F. repayer.]

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

Sanskrit

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