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

“tethers” is a form of

tether

UK /ˈtɛðə/ · US /ˈtɛðəɹ/ noun, verb

Forms tethers tethering tethered tedder

  1. noun A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
  2. noun (figurative) The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc. “Since his hours have increased, I feel that he is at the end of his tether.”
  3. noun (figurative) An attachment to a place, time, entity or person. “Despite moving, he maintained a strong tether to his culture back home.”
  4. noun (nautical, sailing) A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
  5. verb (transitive) To restrict with, or as if with, a tether. “The cowboy tethered his horse outside the saloon.”
  6. verb (transitive) To connect to something else.
  7. verb (Internet, transitive) To connect (a smartphone) to a personal computer in order to give the computer access to the phone's Internet connection.

Synonyms

hobble leash lead

Etymology

From Middle English tether, teder, from Old English *tēoder and/or Old Norse tjóðr ( > Danish tøjr, Swedish tjuder); both from Proto-Germanic *teudrą (“rope; cord; shaft”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dewtro-, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to tie”), or from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with North German Tüder (“tether for binding the cattle”), Swedish tjuder (“tether for binding cattle”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
  2. verb To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.

Etymology [Formerly tedder, OE. tedir; akin to LG. tider, tier, Icel. tjo, Dan. töir. *64.]

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

Sanskrit

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