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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seize

/ˈsiːz/ verb

Forms seizes seizing seized

  1. verb (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
  2. verb (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
  3. verb (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.). “to seize smuggled goods”
  4. verb (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon. “a panic seized the crowd”
  5. verb (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line. “to seize two fish-hooks back to back”
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
  7. verb (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon). “to seize on the neck of a horse”
  8. verb (intransitive) To have a seizure.

Synonyms

clasp grasp grip beclasp begrasp begrip belock clench clinch cling clutch enclasp fang fondle glaum grab grabble hang on hold on hold tight prehend appropriate capture conquer impound attach sequester confiscate assume usurp

Etymology

Earlier seise, from Middle English seisen, sesen, saisen, from Old French seisir (“to take possession of; invest (person, court)”), from Early Medieval Latin sacīre (“to lay claim to, appropriate”) (8th century) in the phrase ad propriam sacire, from Old Low Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, bring legal action”), from Proto-Germanic *sakjaną, *sakōną (compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *sakaną (compare Old Saxon sakan (“to accuse”), Old High German sahhan (“to bicker, quarrel, rebuke”), Old English sacan (“to quarrel, claim by law, accuse”). Cognate to sake and Latin sāgiō (“to perceive acutely”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
  2. verb To take possession of by force.

Etymology [OE. seisen, saisen, OF. seisir, saisir, F. saisir, of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. set. The meaning is properly, to set, put, place, hence, to put in possession of. See Set, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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