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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iguana

UK /ɪ.ɡjuˈɑːnə/ · US /ɪˈɡwɑnə/ noun

Forms iguanas

  1. noun A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
  2. noun (zoology) Any member of the genus Iguana.
  3. noun (colloquial) In America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
  4. noun (colloquial) In Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).
  5. noun (Australia, formerly) Any member of the genus Varanus (see goanna).

Synonyms

common iguana Iguana iguana

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidæ. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.

Etymology [Sp. iguana, from the native name in Hayti. Cf. Guana.]

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

Sanskrit

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