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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scorpion

UK /ˈskɔː.pi.ən/ · US /ˈskɔɹ.pi.ən/ noun, proper noun, adjective

Forms scorpions the Scorpion skorpion

  1. noun Any of the order Scorpiones of arachnids related to spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting at the end.
  2. noun (historical) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
  3. noun (figurative) A very spiteful or vindictive person.
  4. noun A cheerleading move in which one foot is pulled back and held up with both hands while the performer stands on the other foot.
  5. noun (obsolete, biblical) A whip with points like a scorpion's tail.
  6. proper noun (astronomy, astrology) The constellation and zodiacal sign Scorpius.
  7. noun (astrology) Someone with the Scorpio star sign.
  8. adjective (astrology) Of or relating to the Scorpio star sign.

Synonyms

Scorpio Scorpio the Scorpion

Etymology

From Middle English scorpioun, skorpioun, schorpion, schorpiun, partly from Old English sċorpio and partly from Anglo-Norman scorpïun, Old French scorpïon, escorpïon; all from Latin scorpiō, ultimately from Ancient Greek σκορπίος (skorpíos). The cheerleading move is so called because of the resemblance of the raised foot to a scorpion's stinger. Displaced native Old English þrōwend (“scorpion”).

From the animal scorpion, from Latin scorpio (“scorpion”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
  2. noun The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus). [Local, U.S.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. scorpio, scorpius, Gr. sharp.]

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

Sanskrit

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