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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

claw

/klɔː/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms claws clawing clawed

  1. noun A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
  2. noun A foot equipped with such.
  3. noun The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
  4. noun A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
  5. noun (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
  6. noun (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
  7. noun (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
  8. noun (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
  9. verb To scratch or to tear at.
  10. verb To use the claws to seize, to grip.
  11. verb To use the claws to climb.
  12. verb (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
  13. verb To move with one's fingertips.
  14. verb To relieve an uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching (someone or something); hence (figuratively), to flatter or humour (someone); to court, to fawn on.
  15. verb To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something).
  16. verb To do (something) quickly.
  17. proper noun A surname from Navajo.

Synonyms

fang hook chela nipper pincer

Etymology

From Middle English clawe, from Old English clawu, from Proto-Germanic *klawō. Compare West Frisian klau, Dutch klauw, German Klaue, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish klo.

From Middle English clawen, from a combination of Old English clawan/clāwan (a remodelling of *clīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *klauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *klawjaną) and Old English clawian (from Proto-West Germanic *klawēn).

Borrowed from Navajo Claw, variant of Clah.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
  2. noun The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
  3. verb To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
  4. verb To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. clawu, cla, cleó; akin to D. klaauw, G. Klaue, Icel. klo, SW. & Dan. klo, and perh. to E. clew.]

Etymology [AS. clawan. See Claw, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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