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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canine

UK /ˈkeɪnaɪn/ · US /ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/ adjective, noun

Forms canines

  1. adjective Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
  2. adjective Dog-like.
  3. adjective (anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
  4. adjective (medicine, obsolete) Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
  5. noun Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
  6. noun (formal) Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
  7. noun Synonym of cuspid, the pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars in heterodont mammals.
  8. noun (poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.

Synonyms

dogly houndly doglike dog cuspid canine tooth eyetooth eye tooth dogtooth canid laniary

Etymology

From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, doglike, dogtooth”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the family Canidæ, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors. Canine appetite, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia.
  3. noun A canine tooth.

Etymology [L. caninus, fr. canis dog: cf. F. canin. See Hound.]

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

Sanskrit

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