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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splinter

/ˈsplɪn.tə/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms splinters splintering splintered

  1. noun A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
  2. noun A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
  3. noun A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
  4. noun (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
  5. noun (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
  6. verb (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments. “The tall tree splintered during the storm.”
  7. verb (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments. “His third kick splintered the door.”
  8. verb (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions. “The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.”
  9. verb (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

faction splinter group sliver shard spelk spill secede break away

Etymology

From Middle English splenter, splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.

From the noun splinter.

Borrowed from Dutch and North German Splinter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
  2. verb To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
  3. verb To become split into long pieces.
  4. noun A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

Etymology [Cf. LG. splittern, splinteren. See Splint, n., Split.]

Etymology [See Splinter, v., or Splint, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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