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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chine

/t͡ʃaɪn/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms chines chining chined chimb chime

  1. noun The top of a ridge.
  2. noun The spine of an animal.
  3. noun A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  4. noun The back of the blade on a scythe.
  5. verb (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  6. verb (transitive) To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
  7. noun (Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
  8. verb (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break. “The wayward son did chine his father's heart.”
  9. noun The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  10. noun (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  11. noun (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
  12. noun (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
  13. adjective (textiles) Mottled in appearance, from the warp being dyed in different colours, or from threads of different colours twisted together.

Etymology

From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.

From Middle English chyne, chynne (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō.

From Middle English chynen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ċīnan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīnan, from Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).

From Middle English chyne, alteration of Middle English chyme, chymbe, from Old English *ċimb. More at chimb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
  2. noun The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.
  3. noun A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  4. verb To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

Etymology [Cf. Chink.]

Etymology [OF. eschine, F. échine, fr. OHG. skina needle, prickle, shin, G. schiene splint, schienbein shin. For the meaning cf. L. spina thorn, prickle, or spine, the backbone. Cf. Shin.]

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

Sanskrit

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