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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domesticate

/dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/ verb, noun

Forms domesticates domesticating domesticated

  1. verb (transitive) To make domestic.
  2. verb (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
  3. verb (transitive) To adapt to live with humans. “The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans. “Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.”
  5. verb (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
  6. verb (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
  7. noun An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

Synonyms

cultivate naturalize naturalise tame domesticize domesticise reclaim

Antonyms

foreignize

Etymology

First attested in 1620; either borrowed from Middle French domestiquer (Modern French domestiquer) or directly from Medieval Latin domesticātus, perfect passive participle of domesticō (“to domesticate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, domestic + -ate.

First attested in 1860; borrowed from Medieval Latin domesticātus (“domesticated”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
  2. verb To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

Etymology [LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic, a.]

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