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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deerskin

noun

Forms deerskins deer-skin

  1. noun (uncountable) Leather made from deer hide. “The moccasin maker had a pile of deerskin on the table, waiting to be cut out.”
  2. noun (countable) The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer. “The hunter exchanged twenty deerskins for a bottle of whiskey at the trading post.”
  3. noun (countable) An article of clothing manufactured from deerskin. Often constructed in the plural. “The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.”

Etymology

From deer + skin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Hakluyt. Longfellow.

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

Sanskrit

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