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

dental

/ˈdɛn.təl/ adjective, noun

Forms dentals

  1. adjective (relational) Of or concerning the teeth. “dental care”
  2. adjective (dentistry, relational) Of or concerning dentistry.
  3. adjective (phonetics) Articulated with the tip of the tongue touching the upper front teeth or with the blade of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, so that the tip of the tongue rests near the teeth. “dental fricative”
  4. adjective (phonetics, uncommon) Articulated with the tip or blade of the tongue: coronal.
  5. noun (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
  6. noun (phonetics) A dental sound.

Synonyms

toothly teethly prophy alveolar consonant dental consonant alveolar

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dental or Late Latin dentālis, from dēns (“a tooth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.
  2. adjective Formed by the aid of the teeth; --said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters. Dental formula (Zoöl.), a brief notation used by zoölogists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.
  3. noun An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
  4. noun A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.

Etymology [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dental. See Tooth.]

Etymology [Cf. F. dentale. See Dental, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

All 19 Sanskrit matches →