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

verse

UK /vɜːs/ · US /ˈvɝs/ noun, verb

Also a form of worse

Forms verses versing versed

  1. noun A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. “Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.”
  2. noun Poetic form in general. “The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.”
  3. noun One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. “Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.”
  4. noun A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
  5. noun (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
  6. verb (obsolete) To compose verses.
  7. verb (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
  8. verb (transitive, figurative) to educate about, to teach about. “He versed us in the finer points of category theory.”
  9. verb (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against.

Synonyms

poetry stanza poesy rhyme verse line versify poetize poetise

Etymology

From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).

Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
  2. noun Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.
  3. verb To tell in verse, or poetry. [Obs.]
  4. verb To make verses; to versify. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a line in writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers. See Worth to become, and cf. Advertise, Averse, Controversy, Convert, Divers, Invert, Obverse, Prose, Suzerain, Vortex.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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