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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.

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fang

/ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms fangs fanging fanged phang phange

  1. noun A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
  2. noun (obsolete) Synonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates.
  3. noun A long, pointed tooth in snakes, used for injecting venom.
  4. noun A pointed extension of the chelicera in spiders, used for injecting venom.
  5. noun (colloquial) Synonym of tooth, particularly in humans.
  6. noun (mathematics) Either of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.
  7. verb (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
  8. verb To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
  9. verb (transitive, dialectal or archaic) To catch, capture; seize.
  10. verb (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
  11. verb (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality.
  12. verb (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
  13. verb (transitive, dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
  14. noun (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
  15. noun (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
  16. noun (obsolete) Synonym of trap or noose.
  17. noun Synonym of root, the part of a tooth embedded in the gums.
  18. noun (botany, obsolete) Synonym of root, a major projection of a plant's root system.
  19. noun (obsolete) Synonym of claw or talon.
  20. noun Synonym of spike or prong, any sharp projection.

Synonyms

fangtooth mandible tooth particularly in humans clasp grasp grip clutch lay hold of beclasp begrasp begrip belock clench clinch cling enclasp fondle glaum grab

Etymology

From clipping of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“molar tooth”), from feng, preterite of fōn (“to catch, take, seize”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand. See also related senses of Etymology 3 below.

From Middle English fangen, fongen, from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”).
Cognate with North Frisian fo, fu, füünj (“to get, obtain, receive”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen, fahen (“to catch”), Low German fangen (“to catch”), Luxembourgish fänken (“to catch”), Faroese fá, fáa (“to get; to catch”), Icelandic fá (“to get, receive”), Danish, Norwegian, Swedish få (“to get, receive”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).

From Middle English fang, possibly from Old English fang, feng (“grasp, catch”); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (“catch”) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch, catching, seizure”), from the verb *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”).
Compare Scots fang (“catch”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).

The Macquarie Dictionary and the Australian National Dictionary Centre derive it from the name of Juan Fangio, Argentinian racing driver.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. verb To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. "Chariots fanged with scythes." Philips.
  3. noun The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
  4. noun Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.

Etymology [OE. fangen, fongen, fon (g orig. only in p.p. and imp. tense), AS. f; akin to D. vangen, OHG. fahan, G. fahen, fangen, Isel. fa, Sw. f, f, Dan. fange, faae, Goth. fahan, and prob. to E. fair, peace, pact. Cf. Fair, a.]

Etymology [From Fang, v. t.; cf. AS. fang a taking, booty, G. fang.]

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

Sanskrit

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