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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dine

/daɪn/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms dines dining dined Dineh

  1. verb (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. verb (transitive) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
  4. noun (obsolete) Dinnertime.
  5. noun The Navajo people
  6. proper noun The Navajo language
  7. proper noun A surname.
  8. proper noun A barangay of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

Synonyms

dinner

Etymology

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.

From Navajo Diné. Doublet of Dene.

* As a Dutch surname, shortened from Van Dine (see Vanduyne).
* As an English surname, from digne, from Old French digne (“proud, dignified”), from Latin dignus.
* As a French surname, shortened from Claudine.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
  2. verb To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.
  3. verb To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine." Chaucer.

Etymology [F. dîner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, D.]

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

Sanskrit

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