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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den

/ˈdɛn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of then

Forms dens denning denned

  1. noun A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment. “a den of robbers”
  2. noun A squalid or wretched place; a haunt. “a den of vice”
  3. noun A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
  4. noun Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”). “Our little girls love using bedsheets and other stuff around the house to make dens in the living room and pretending they're on adventures.”
  5. noun (UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
  6. noun A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
  7. verb (reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
  8. verb (intransitive, zoology) Of an animal, to use as a den; to take up residence in.
  9. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Dennis.

Synonyms

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Etymology

From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).

From Old French denier, from Latin denarius.

Shortening.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.
  2. noun A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice. "Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of great capitals." Addison.
  3. verb To live in, or as in, a den. The sluggish salvages that den below. G. Fletcher.

Etymology [AS. denn; perh. akin to G. tenne floor, thrashing floor, and to AS. denu valley.]

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

Sanskrit

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