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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

rein

/ɹeɪn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms reins reining reined

  1. noun A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, other animal or young child.
  2. noun (figurative) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing. “The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices.”
  3. verb (transitive) To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
  4. verb (transitive) To restrain; to control; to check.
  5. verb (intransitive) To obey directions given with the reins.
  6. noun (now rare, archaic, chiefly in plural) A kidney.
  7. noun The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.
  8. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

harness rein in draw rein rule

Etymology

From Middle English rein, reyne, from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.
Displaced native Old English brīdel (“bridle, rein”), Old English wealdleþer, ġewealdleþer (“rein, bridle”, literally “control strap”), Old English sāl (“cord, rein”), Old English tiġel (“rein”), and Old English lāttēh, lāttēh (“leash, rein”).

From Anglo-Norman reines, Middle French reins, and their source, Latin rēnēs. Doublet of ren.

* As a German surname, borrowed from German Rein, comparable to the first element of several surnames such as Reinhardt, Reinbold, etc., from Proto-Germanic *raginą.
* As an English surname, variant of Rain. Possibly also a habitational surname related to Rhine.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.
  2. noun Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint. "Let their eyes rove without rein." Milton. To give rein, To give the rein to, to give license to; to leave withouut restrain.
  3. verb To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.
  4. verb To restrain; to control; to check.

Etymology [F. rêne, fr. (assumed) LL. retina, fr. L. retinere to hold back. See Retain.]

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

Sanskrit

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