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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yonder

UK /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈjɑndəɹ/ adverb, adjective, determiner, noun

Forms yonders younder

  1. adverb (archaic or dialectal outside of Cumbria, Southern US) At or in a distant but indicated place. “Whose doublewide is that over yonder?”
  2. adverb (archaic or dialect) Synonym of thither: to a distant but indicated place. “They headed on over yonder.”
  3. adjective (archaic or dialect) The farther, the more distant of two choices.
  4. determiner (archaic or dialect, as an adjective) Who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight. “Yonder lass, who be she?”
  5. determiner (archaic or dialect, as a pronoun) One who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight. “The yonder is Queen Niobe.”
  6. noun (literary) The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest. “She set off into the blue yonder.”

Synonyms

thither there over there away there farther yon

Etymology

From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb At a distance, but within view.
  2. adjective Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon. "Yon flowery arbors, yonder alleys green." Milton. "Yonder sea of light." Keble.

Etymology [OE. yonder, ýonder; cf. OD. ginder, Goth. jaindr there. Yond, adv.]

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

Sanskrit

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