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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innuendo

/ˌɪnjuˈɛndəʊ/ noun, verb

Forms innuendoes innuendos innuendis innuendoing innuendoed inuendo

  1. noun A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing. “She made a devious innuendo about her opponent, who was embarrassed.”
  2. noun A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.
  3. noun (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
  4. noun (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
  5. verb (transitive, law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.

Synonyms

insinuation

Etymology

From the Latin innuendō (“by nodding”), ablative singular form of innuendum (“a nodding”), gerund of innuō (“to give a nod”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
  2. noun An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; --as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief. Wharton.

Etymology [L., by intimation, by hinting, gerund of innuere, innutum, to give a nod, to intimate; pref. in- in, to + -nuere (in comp.) to nod. See Nutation.]

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

Sanskrit

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