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

“calves” is a form of

calf

UK /kɑːf/ · US /kæf/ noun

Forms calves calfs

  1. noun A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
  2. noun Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
  3. noun The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
  4. noun A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
  5. noun A small island, near a larger island.
  6. noun A cabless railroad engine.
  7. noun (informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
  8. noun (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
  9. noun The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

Synonyms

bullet cowlet cowling moggy sura calfskin

Etymology

From Middle English calf, from Anglian Old English cælf, calf (West Saxon ċealf), from Proto-West Germanic *kalb, from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, further etymology unknown.
* Scots caff (“calf”)
* Scots calf (“calf”)
* Scots cauf (“calf”)
* Scots cawf (“calf”)
* North Frisian Kualev (“calf”)
* North Frisian kualew (“calf”)
* North Frisian kuulew (“calf”)
* Saterland Frisian Koolich (“calf”)
* West Frisian keal (“calf”)
* German Kalb (“calf”)
* Luxembourgish Kallef (“calf”)
* Limburgish kalf (“calf”)
* Dutch kalf (“calf”)
* Vilamovian kołb (“calf”)
* Vilamovian kołp (“calf”)
* Faroese kálvur (“calf”)
* Icelandic kálfur (“calf”)
* Danish kalv (“calf”)
* Norwegian Bokmål kalv (“calf”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk kalv (“calf”)
* Swedish kalv (“calf”)

From Middle English calf, kalf, from Old Norse kalfi, possibly derived from the same Germanic root as English calf (“young cow”) (above). Cognate with Icelandic kálfi (“calf of the leg”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
  2. noun Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

Etymology [OE. calf, kelf, AS. cealf; akin to D. kalf, G. kalb, Icel. kalfr, Sw. kalf, Dan. kalv, Goth. kalbo; cf. Skr. garbha fetus, young, Gr. grabh to seize, conceive, Ir. colpa, colpach, a calf. *222.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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