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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tuna

UK /ˈtjuː.nə/ · US /ˈtu.nə/ noun, proper noun

Forms tunas

  1. noun Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
  2. noun The edible flesh of the tuna.
  3. noun The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
  4. noun The fruit of the cactus.
  5. noun (slang) Someone who is seen as socially successful despite not being a gang member.
  6. proper noun Various towns and (historical) former settlements in Sweden.
  7. proper noun (Maori mythology) A god, considered the son of Manga-wai-roa and source of eels.

Synonyms

tuna fish tunny Opuntia tuna Anguilla sucklandii

Etymology

Borrowed from United States Spanish tuna, alteration of Spanish atún, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Possibly in the sense of "darter" from thynein "to dart along". Doublet of tonno.

From Taíno.

Acronym of turnt up nonaffiliate.

From Swedish Tuna, from Old Norse Tuna, from tún (“enclosure, enclosed area, settlement”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.

Etymology [Cf. Tunny.]

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

Sanskrit

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