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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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salamander

UK /ˈsæləˌmændə/ · US /ˈsæləˌmændɚ/ noun, verb

Forms salamanders salamandering salamandered

  1. noun A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
  2. noun (mythology) A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.
  3. noun (cooking) A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
  4. noun (cooking) A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning. “The chef first put the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.”
  5. noun (archaic) A pouched gopher (Geomys pinetis etc.)
  6. noun (UK, obsolete) A large poker.
  7. noun (metallurgy, uncountable) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
  8. noun (construction) A portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
  9. verb (transitive) To use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.

Synonyms

Shadrach poker stove poker fire hook

Etymology

From Middle English salamandre, from Anglo-Norman salamandre, from Latin salamandra, from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra), of uncertain origin (per Beekes, likely Pre-Greek); possibly of Iranian origin, see Persian سمندر (samandar) for more information.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.
  2. noun The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States.

Etymology [F. salamandre, L. salamandra, Gr. samander, samandel.]

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