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

“seweth” is a form of

sew

UK /səʊ/ · US /soʊ/ verb, noun

Forms sews sewing sewed sewn sewest sewedst seweth sewen

  1. verb (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. “I sewed a button on.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
  3. verb (transitive) Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. “to sew money into a bag”
  4. verb (obsolete, transitive) To drain the water from.
  5. verb (nautical) Of a ship, to be grounded.
  6. noun (obsolete) Broth, gravy.

Synonyms

stitch run up sew together tailor tailor-make

Etymology

From Middle English sewen, sowen, from Old English siwian, seowian, seowan (“to sew, mend, patch, knit together, link, unite”), from Proto-Germanic *siwjaną (“to sew”), from Proto-Indo-European *syewH- (“to sew”). Cognate with Scots sew, North Frisian saie, sei, Saterland Frisian säie, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sy, and, more distantly, Polish szyć, Russian шить (šitʹ), Latin suō, Sanskrit सीव्यति (sī́vyati). Related to seam.

Back-formation from sewer (“a drain”).

From Middle English sew (“broth”), from Old English sēaw (“sap, juice”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauw.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obs.] Gower.
  2. verb To follow; to pursue; to sue. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
  3. verb To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
  4. verb To close or stop by ssewing; --often with up; as, to sew up a rip.

Etymology [OE. See Sewer household officer.]

Etymology [See Sue to follow.]

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

Sanskrit

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