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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infanticide

/ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/ noun

Forms infanticides

  1. noun The murder of an infant.
  2. noun The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
  3. noun (law, Canada) The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
  4. noun (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
  5. noun The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.

Etymology

From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīdium. By surface analysis, infant + -i- + -cide.

From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīda. By surface analysis, infant + -i- + -cide.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
  2. noun One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.

Etymology [L. infanticidium child murder; infans, - antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See Infant, and Homicide.]

Etymology [L. infanticida: cf. F. infanticide.]

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

Sanskrit

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