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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cub

/kʌb/ noun, verb

Forms cubs cubbing cubbed cubbe

  1. noun The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.
  2. noun (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
  3. noun (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
  4. noun (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
  5. noun Synonym of cub reporter.
  6. noun A furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).
  7. noun (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.
  8. noun (gay slang) a younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.
  9. verb To give birth to cubs.
  10. verb To hunt fox cubs.
  11. verb (obsolete) To shut up or confine.
  12. noun A member of the Cub Scouts.
  13. noun (baseball) A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs". “Jones became a Cub as the result of a pre-season trade.”

Synonyms

cub reporter greenhorn rookie lad laddie sonny sonny boy young carnivore

Etymology

From earlier cubbe. Origin unknown. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *kubb-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve, convex, arch, vault”). Related terms include cup (cf. cupboard), coffin, cove, etc, essentially “chamber”, thus cub maybe initially derived from the sense “den”, or maybe “womb”.
A probable cognate is also found in North Germanic: dialectal Swedish kubbe, kybbe, köbbe, kibb, Danish kippe (“calf”). Also compare Icelandic and Old Norse kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”). Compare also English cob.
Originally, the meaning was specifically "young fox", in which sense it has largely replaced English whelp.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.
  2. noun Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, illmannered boy. O, thuo dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a drizzle on thy case Shak.
  3. verb To bring forth; --said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.
  4. noun A stall for cattle. [Obs.]

Etymology [Cf. Ir. cuib cub, whelp, young dog, Ir. & Gael. cu dog; akin to E. hound.]

Etymology [Cf. Cub a young animal.]

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

Sanskrit

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