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

cuticle

/ˈkjuːtɪkəl/ noun

Forms cuticles

  1. noun The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
  2. noun Dead or cornified epidermis.
  3. noun (zoology) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates.
  4. noun (botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many plants.
  5. noun A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
  6. noun A protective layer on the shell of a bird's egg.

Synonyms

epidermis perionychium perionyx cuticula carapace shell shield

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cutīcula (“cuticle, skin”). Doublet of cuticula.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
  2. noun The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.

Etymology [L. cuticula, dim. of cuttis skin; akin to E. hide skin of an animal.]

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

Sanskrit

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