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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sue

/sjuː/ verb, proper noun, noun

Forms sues suing sued Su

  1. verb (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action. “sue someone for selling a faulty product”
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. “The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.”
  3. verb (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
  4. verb (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore. “to sue a ship”
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To court.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
  7. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.
  8. noun (informal) Synonym of Mary Sue (“type of character in fiction”).

Synonyms

implead Mary Sue Eugene Sue action litigate process

Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

Clipping.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo. For yet there was no man that haddle him sued. Chaucer.
  2. verb (a) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
  3. verb To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  4. verb To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.

Etymology [OE. suen, sewen, siwen, OF. sivre (pres.ind. 3d sing. il siut, suit, he follows, nous sevons we follow), LL. sequere, for L. sequi, secutus; akin to Gr. sac to accompany, and probably to E. see, v.t. See See, v. t., and cf. Consequence, Ensue, Execute, Obsequious, Pursue, Second, Sect in religion, Sequence, Suit.]

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

Sanskrit

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