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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

eel

/iːl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms eels eeling eeled

  1. noun Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
  2. noun A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
  3. noun An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus)
  4. noun A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
  5. noun An earthworm eel, also called the spineless eel (any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae).
  6. noun A spiny eel (any fish in the family Mastacembelidae).
  7. noun A deep-sea spiny eel (any fish in the family Notacanthidae).
  8. noun A conger eel, also called the Congo eel, amphiuma, and Congo snake (any salamander of the genus Amphiuma).
  9. verb (intransitive) To fish for eels.
  10. verb (intransitive) To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
  11. proper noun A township in Cass County, Indiana, United States, probably named after the Eel River.

Etymology

From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.
Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.

Etymology [AS. ; akin to D., G., & Dan. aal, Icel. all, Sw. ål.]

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

Sanskrit

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