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

“Goats” is a form of

goat

UK /ɡəʊt/ · US /ɡoʊt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms goats goating goated the Goat G.O.A.T. G. O. A. T. 𓃵

  1. noun Any ruminant of the genus Capra.
  2. noun (uncountable) The meat of these animals.
  3. noun (slang) A lecherous man.
  4. noun (informal) A scapegoat.
  5. noun (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.
  6. noun (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
  7. noun A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
  8. noun (roller derby) A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.
  9. verb (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
  10. verb (transitive) To scapegoat.
  11. verb (transitive, roller derby) To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.
  12. noun (UK, politics, informal) A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.
  13. proper noun (astronomy, astrology) The constellation and zodiacal sign Capricornus.
  14. proper noun The eighth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

Synonyms

Horned Goat Sea-goat caprine animal butt laughingstock stooge Capricorn Capricorn the Goat

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.
The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

Abbreviation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

Etymology [OE goot, got, gat, AS. gat; akin to D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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