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

snout

/snaʊt/ noun, verb

Forms snouts snouting snouted

  1. noun The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. “The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.”
  2. noun The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
  3. noun (derogatory) A person's nose. “His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.”
  4. noun The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc. “If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.”
  5. noun The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
  6. noun The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
  7. noun (UK, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
  8. noun The terminus of a glacier.
  9. verb To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Synonyms

neb beak honker hooter nozzle snoot schnozzle schnoz rostrum

Etymology

From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz.
Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
  2. noun The nose of a man; --in contempt. Hudibras.
  3. verb To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Etymology [OE. snoute, probably of Scand, or Low German origin; cf. LG. snute, D. snuit, G. schnauze, Sw. snut, snyte, Dan. snude, Icel. sn to blow the nose; probably akin to E. snuff, v.t. Cf. Snite, Snot, Snuff.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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