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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vaunt

/vɔːnt/ verb, noun

Forms vaunts vaunting vaunted

  1. verb (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
  2. verb (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
  3. verb (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
  4. noun An instance of vaunting; a boast.
  5. noun (obsolete) The first part.

Synonyms

boast brag flaunt tout swash shoot a line gas blow bluster gasconade

Etymology

From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).

From French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
  2. verb To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
  3. noun A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
  4. noun The first part. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See Vain.]

Etymology [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.]

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

Sanskrit

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