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

“treadeth” is a form of

tread

/tɹɛd/ verb, noun

Forms treads treading trod treaded trodden treade

  1. verb (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample. “He trod back and forth wearily.”
  2. verb (transitive) To step or walk upon. “Actors tread the boards.”
  3. verb (figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner). “to tread lightly, to tread gently”
  4. verb To beat or press with the feet. “to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path”
  5. verb To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
  6. verb To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
  7. verb To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
  8. verb (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
  9. noun A step taken with the foot.
  10. noun A manner of stepping.
  11. noun The sound made when someone or something is walking.
  12. noun (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
  13. noun (construction) A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
  14. noun The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
  15. noun The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
  16. noun (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.

Synonyms

step on stomp run pace stride step trample

Antonyms

rise riser

Etymology

From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.

From Middle English tred, from treden (“to tread”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To set the foot; to step.
  2. verb To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
  3. verb To step or walk on. Forbid to tread the promised land he saw. Prior.
  4. verb To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.

Etymology [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. dram to run. Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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