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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worth

UK /ˈwɜːθ/ · US /wɝθ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms worths worthing worthed worthen word

  1. adjective Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for. “How much / What is your house worth? - Now it's worth half what I paid for it. So it'd sure would be worthwhile to repair before putting it for sale.”
  2. adjective Deserving of. “This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.”
  3. adjective (obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worthwhile.
  4. adjective Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating. “This job is hardly worth the effort.”
  5. noun (countable, uncountable) Value. “I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.”
  6. noun (uncountable) Merit, excellence. “Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.”
  7. noun (uncountable) An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
  8. noun (uncountable, obsolete) High social standing, noble rank.
  9. verb (obsolete, except in set phrases or dialectal) To be, become, betide. “Woe worth the man that crosses me.”
  10. proper noun A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3356).
  11. proper noun A civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, which formerly included the village.
  12. proper noun A village in Crawley borough, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ3036).
  13. proper noun A river in West Yorkshire, the River Worth, which joins the River Aire at Keighley.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Turner County, Georgia.
  15. proper noun A village in Cook County, Illinois.
  16. proper noun A village in Worth County, Missouri.
  17. proper noun A town in Jefferson County, New York.

Synonyms

Charles Frederick Worth deserving

Antonyms

worthlessness

Etymology

From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *werþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
Cognate with Scots wirth (“worth”), Cimbrian bèart (“worth, value”), Dutch waard, weerd (“worth”), German wert (“worth”) (the source of Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”), etc), Luxembourgish wäert (“worth”), Yiddish ווערט (vert), ווערד (verd, “worth, value”), Danish værd (“worth”), Faroese and Icelandic verður (“worth”), Norwegian Bokmål verdt (“worth”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“worth”), Swedish värd (“worth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 (wairþ, “worth, value”), Welsh gwerth (“worth, value”).

From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen (“to be; exist; come into being; come into existence”), from Old English weorþan (“to come into being; be made; become; arise; be”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to come about; happen; come into being; become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn; turn out”).
Cognate with Dutch worden, dated Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.

From Old English worþ (“enclosure”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be; to become; to betide; --now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
  2. adjective Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.]
  3. adjective Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for. A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. Shak.
  4. noun That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.

Etymology [OE. worthen, wurÞen, to become, AS. weorthan; akin to OS. werthan, D. worden, G. werden, OHG. werdan, Icel. vertha, Sw. varda, Goth. waírpan, L. vertere to turn, Skr. vrt, v. i., to turn, to roll, to become. *143. Cf. Verse, -ward, Weird.]

Etymology [OE. worth, wurÞ, AS. weorth, wurE; akin to OFries. werth, OS. werth, D. waard, OHG. werd, G. wert, werth, Icel. verthr, Sw. värd, Dan. værd, Goth. waírps, and perhaps to E. wary. Cf. Stalwart, Ware an article of merchandise, Worship.]

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

Sanskrit

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