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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elephantine

/ɛl.əˈfæn.tin/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms elephantines

  1. adjective Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of elephants.
  2. adjective Very large.
  3. noun (zoology) Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae of elephants and their extinct close relatives.
  4. proper noun An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.
  5. adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.

Synonyms

elephantesque elephantic elephantish elephantlike elephanty ample big exceeding cosmic bodacious broad commodious considerable expansive good-sized full generous giant grand great gargantuan jumbo

Etymology

From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine.

From Ancient Greek Ἐλεφαντίνη (Elephantínē).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms.

Etymology [L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr. éléphantin.]

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

Sanskrit

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