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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forefoot

noun, verb

Forms forefeet forefoots forefooting forefooted

  1. noun Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
  2. noun The front part of a person's foot.
  3. noun (shipbuilding) A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
  4. verb (rare, obsolete) To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
  5. verb (transitive) To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.

Etymology

From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; --usually written fore foot.
  2. noun A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.

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

Sanskrit

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