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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stag

/stæɡ/ noun, verb, adverb

Forms stags stagging stagged steg staig stagg stagge

  1. noun (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
  2. noun (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
  3. noun (UK) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
  4. noun (by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
  5. noun (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
  6. noun (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
  7. noun (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
  8. noun (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event. “a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar”
  9. verb (intransitive, UK) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
  10. verb (transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
  11. adverb Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date. “My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.”

Synonyms

buck hart bachelor party stag do stag party stag lunch shadow denounce tell on betray give away rat grass shit shop snitch spy snoop sleuth

Etymology

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
  2. noun A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. verb To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks. [Cant]
  4. verb To watch; to dog, or keep track of. [Prov. Eng. or Slang] H. Kingsley.

Etymology [Icel. steggr the male of several animals; or a doubtful AS. stagga. Cf. Steg.]

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

Sanskrit

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