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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

groin

/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/ noun, verb

Also a form of groyne

Forms groins groining groined

  1. noun The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
  2. noun The area adjoining this fold or depression. “He pulled a muscle in his groin.”
  3. noun (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
  4. noun (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
  5. noun (euphemistic) The genitals. “He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.”
  6. verb To deliver a blow to the genitals of. “In the scrum he somehow got groined.”
  7. verb (architecture) To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
  8. verb (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
  9. verb To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.

Synonyms

inguen breakwater groyne mole bulwark seawall jetty

Etymology

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The snout of a swine. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. verb To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  3. noun The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.
  4. noun The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.

Etymology [F. groin, fr. grogner to grunt, L. grunnire.]

Etymology [F. grogner to grunt, grumble.]

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

Sanskrit

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