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

saline

UK /ˈseɪ.laɪn/ · US /ˈseɪ.lin/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms salines

  1. adjective Containing salt; salty.
  2. adjective Resembling salt. “a saline taste”
  3. noun Water containing dissolved salt.
  4. noun A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
  5. proper noun A village in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
  6. proper noun A city and township in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Menard County, Texas.
  8. proper noun A ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, close to the Great Salt Lake.
  9. proper noun A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Saline Township.
  10. proper noun A village in the west of Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0292).

Synonyms

saline solution

Etymology

From Middle English salyne, from Medieval Latin salīna and Middle French salin, from Latin sal (“salt”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
  2. adjective Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
  3. noun A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
  4. noun A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources. [Written also salin.]

Etymology [F. salin, fr. L. sal salt: cf. L. salinae salt works, salinum saltcellar. See Salt.]

Etymology [Cf. F. saline. See Saline, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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