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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pinion

/ˈpɪnjən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pinions pinioning pinioned

  1. noun A wing.
  2. noun (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
  3. noun (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
  4. noun A moth of the genus Lithophane.
  5. verb To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
  6. verb To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
  7. verb (transferred sense, figurative) To restrain; to limit.
  8. noun (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

shackle flight feather quill quill feather pennon

Etymology

From Middle English pynyon, from Old French pignon, from Latin penna (“feather”).

Borrowed from French pignon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
  2. noun A feather; a quill. Shak.
  3. noun A wing, literal or figurative.
  4. verb To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.

Etymology [OF. pignon a pen, F., gable, pinion (in sense 5); cf. Sp. piñon pinion; fr. L. pinna pinnacle, feather, wing. See Pin a peg, and cf. Pen a feather, Pennat, Pennon.]

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

Sanskrit

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