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

talon

/ˈtælən/ noun, proper noun

Forms talons

  1. noun A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
  2. noun (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
  3. noun (architecture) A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
  4. noun The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
  5. noun (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.
  6. noun (finance, historical) A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.
  7. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname.
  8. proper noun A male given name from English of modern usage.

Synonyms

fang

Etymology

From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Proto-Romance *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”).

The surname derives from Old French talon (“heel”) as a nickname for a deformity, or for a swift runner; also diminutive of Talbot and Talleyrand. The modern given name is associated with English talon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. Bacon.
  2. noun One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

Etymology [F., heel, spur, LL. talo, fr. L. talus the ankle, heel.]

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

Sanskrit

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