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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pedigree

/ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms pedigrees pedigreeing pedigreed

  1. noun A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
  2. noun A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
  3. noun (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
  4. noun The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
  5. noun The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
  6. adjective Having a pedigree.
  7. adjective Purebred.
  8. verb (transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).

Synonyms

lineage line line of descent descent bloodline blood line blood ancestry origin parentage stemma stock pedigreed pureblood pureblooded thoroughbred

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
  2. noun A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

Etymology [Of unknown origin; possibly fr. F. par degrés by degrees, -- for a pedigree is properly a genealogical table which records the relationship of families by degrees; or, perh., fr. F. pied de grue crane's foot, from the shape of the heraldic genealogical trees.]

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

Sanskrit

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