Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

shiv

/ʃɪv/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of shiva

Forms shivs shivving shivved chib chiv shive

noun (slang, countable) A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
noun (uncountable) A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
verb (transitive, slang) To stab (someone) with a shiv.
verb (transitive, slang, by extension) To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
proper noun A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.
proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.

Synonyms

First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Variant of Shiva, from Sanskrit शिव (Śivá, “the auspicious one”).

From Siobhan and its other anglicised spellings.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “shiv”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details