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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shepherd

UK /ˈʃɛpəd/ · US /ˈʃɛpəɹd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms shepherds shepherding shepherded Shepard Shephard Sheppard Shepperd

  1. noun (countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
  2. noun A male sheep tender
  3. noun (countable, figurative) Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
  4. noun A male watcher/guardian/guider/leader
  5. noun (Christianity, countable, figurative) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
  6. noun A male pastor
  7. noun (countable, poetic) A swain; a rustic male lover.
  8. noun (countable) A German Shepherd.
  9. verb (transitive) To watch over; to guide.
  10. verb (transitive, Australian rules football) To obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.
  11. proper noun An English surname originating as an occupation.
  12. proper noun A male given name.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana.
  14. proper noun A village in Isabella County, Michigan.
  15. proper noun A census-designated place in Yellowstone County, Montana.
  16. proper noun A city in San Jacinto County, Texas.

Synonyms

pastor sheepherder sheepman

Etymology

From Middle English schepherde, from Old English sċēaphierde, a compound of sċēap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep + herd (“herder”).

From shepherd.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
  2. noun The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
  3. verb To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd. [Poetic]

Etymology [OE. schepherde, schephirde, AS. sceáphyrde; sceáp sheep + hyrde, hirde, heorde, a herd, a guardian. See Sheep, and Herd.]

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

Sanskrit

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