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

“falcons” is a form of

falcon

UK /ˈfɔː(l)kən/ · US /ˈfælkən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms falcons falconing falconed faulcon faucon

  1. noun Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
  2. noun Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.
  3. noun (falconry) A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
  4. noun (historical) A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.
  5. verb To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
  6. proper noun A surname from Spanish.
  7. proper noun A surname, from Native Indigenous Amerindian languages.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
  10. proper noun A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
  11. proper noun A town in Cumberland County and Sampson County, North Carolina.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in McNairy County, Tennessee.
  13. proper noun A suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia.
  14. proper noun A Spanish surname.
  15. proper noun A state in northern Venezuela, named after Juan Crisóstomo Falcón.
  16. proper noun A municipality in Falcón state, Venezuela.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”).
Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.

* Calque from Amerindian languages, for the bird falcon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) One of a family (Falconidæ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.
  2. noun An ancient form of cannon. Chanting falcon. (Zoöl.) See under Chanting.

Etymology [OE. faucon, faucoun, OF. faucon, falcon, faucon, fr. LL. falco, perh. from L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe, and named from its curving talons. Cf. Falchion.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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