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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puppy

/ˈpʌpi/ noun, verb

Forms puppies puppying puppied puppie

  1. noun A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12–18 months).
  2. noun A young rat.
  3. noun A young seal.
  4. noun A dog with a youthful appearance, or any dog.
  5. noun (slang, usually in the plural) A woman’s breast.
  6. noun (informal) A (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker. “I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.”
  7. noun (derogatory, dated) A conceited and impertinent person, especially a young man.
  8. verb (transitive) To bring forth whelps or give birth to pups.

Synonyms

dogling pup whelp whelpie

Etymology

From earlier puppie (“a woman's pet dog”), of uncertain origin, but probably from Middle English *puppee, *poupee, from Old French poupée, popée (“a doll; puppet”). More at puppet.
Mostly displaced native Middle English whelp (“puppy”), from Old English hwelp, whence Modern English whelp and whelpie.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.
  2. noun A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.
  3. verb To bring forth whelps; to pup.

Etymology [F. poupée doll, puppet. See Puppet, and cf. Pup, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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