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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reply

/ɹɪˈplaɪ/ verb, noun

Forms replies replying replied

  1. verb (transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
  2. verb (intransitive) To act or gesture in response. “Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.
  4. noun A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
  5. noun Something given in reply.
  6. noun A counterattack.
  7. noun (music) The answer of a figure.
  8. noun (US, law) A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.

Synonyms

respond answer back react rejoin counter revert follow up get back to answer retort return comeback response account rejoinder riposte reaction rebuttal

Etymology

From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“to fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“to fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
  2. verb To answer a defendant's plea.
  3. verb To return for an answer. Milton.
  4. noun That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

Etymology [OE. replien, OF. replier, F. répliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Replica.]

Etymology [See Reply, v. i., and cf. Replica.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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