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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ware

UK /ˈwɛə/ · US /ˈwɛɹ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Also a form of wear were

Forms wares waring wared wore

  1. noun (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
  2. noun (in the plural) See wares.
  3. noun (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
  4. noun (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
  5. noun (Ireland) Crockery.
  6. adjective (poetic) Aware.
  7. verb (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
  8. verb (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. “Ware thee.”
  9. adjective (obsolete) Wary; cautious.
  10. noun (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.
  11. noun (Northern England, Scotland) Spring, springtime.
  12. verb Old eye dialect spelling of were.
  13. proper noun A hamlet in Uplyme parish, East Devon district, Devon, next to Lyme Regis in Dorset (OS grid ref SY3291)
  14. proper noun A town and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3614).
  15. proper noun A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2860).
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Sherman Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa.
  18. proper noun An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
  19. proper noun A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  20. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri.

Synonyms

merchandise product consume squander waste

Etymology

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”).

From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).

From Middle English wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Scots wair (“seaweed”), Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. Wore.
  2. verb To wear, or veer. See Wear.
  3. noun Seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ware goose (Zoöl.), the brant; --so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. noun Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his wares at wakes." Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware." Chaucer.

Etymology [AS. war.]

Etymology [OE. ware, AS. waru; akin to D. waar, G. waare, Icel. & Sw. vara, Dan. vare; and probably to E. worth, a. See Worth, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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