Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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whom

UK /huːm/ · US /hum/ pronoun

Also a form of who

Forms of who whome

pronoun As the object of a verb. “Whom did you ask?”
pronoun As the object of a preposition. “To whom are you referring?”
pronoun (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people. “That is the woman whom I spoke to earlier. (defining)”
pronoun (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever. “To whom it may concern, all business of John Smith Ltd. has now been transferred to Floggitt & Runne.”
pronoun (informal, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams. “Whom was Lemmy bassist for? Motörhead!”

Etymology

From Middle English whom, wham, from Old English hwām, hwǣm, from Proto-Germanic *hwammai, dative case of *hwaz (“who, what”). Cognate with Scots wham (“whom”), German wem (“whom, to whom”), Danish hvem (“who, whom”), Swedish vem (“who, whom”).

Webster’s 1913

pronoun The objective case of who. See Who.

Etymology [OE. wham, AS. dative hwam, hw. See Who.]

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

Sanskrit

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

आग्रभोजनिक āgrabhojanika one to whom food is first offered.
प्ररक्ष pra-rakṣa one from whom any one is protected.
किमीय kimīya belonging or relating to whom or what?
अप्रतिगृह्य a-pratigṛhya one from whom one must not accept anything.
अभ्यस्तमित abhy-astamita one on whom the sun has gone down while asleep.
विलिस्तेङ्गा vilisteṅgā name of a Dānavī (of whom Indra was enamoured).
नमनीय namanīya to be bowed down to, one to whom one must pay obeisance, venerable.
प्रतिगृह्य prati-gṛhya to be accepted, acceptable; one from whom anything may be accepted.

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