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

domestic

/dəˈmɛs.tɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms domestics domestick

  1. adjective Of or relating to the home.
  2. adjective Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur. “domestic violence; domestic hot water”
  3. adjective (of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
  4. adjective Internal to a specific country. “domestic terrorism”
  5. adjective Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.
  6. noun A maid or household servant.
  7. noun (informal, colloquial) A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

Synonyms

bourgeois civilized comfortable domiciliary domesticated intranational domestic help house servant

Antonyms

adventurous social wild feral foreign global undomestic

Etymology

From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak.
  3. noun One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
  4. noun pl. (Com.)

Etymology [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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