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

“spendest” is a form of

spend

/spɛnd/ verb, noun

Forms spends spending spent

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To pay out (money). “I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.”
  2. verb To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
  3. verb (dated) To squander. “to spend an estate in gambling”
  4. verb To exhaust, to wear out. “The violence of the waves was spent.”
  5. verb To consume, to use up (time). “My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.”
  6. verb (dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually. “The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed. “Energy spends in the using of it.”
  8. verb To be diffused; to spread.
  9. noun Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. “I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.”
  10. noun (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
  11. noun Discharged semen.
  12. noun Vaginal discharge.

Synonyms

outlay pass expend drop

Etymology

From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
  2. verb To bestow; to employ; --often with on or upon.
  3. verb To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
  4. verb To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon.

Etymology [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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