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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taunt

UK /tɔːnt/ · US /tɔnt/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of daunt

Forms taunts taunting taunted

  1. verb (transitive) To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner. “John taunts his brother to reveal his hiding spot.”
  2. noun A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
  3. adjective (obsolete, nautical) Very high or tall.
  4. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

twit taunting tease razz rag cod tantalize tantalise bait rally ride

Etymology

From Middle French tanter (“to tempt, try, provoke”), variant of Old French tempter (“to try”). Doublet of tempt.

Compare Old French tant (“so great”), French tant (“so much”), Latin tantus (“of such size, so great, so much”). See ataunt.

Perhaps a variant of Daunt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
  2. verb To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
  3. noun Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

Etymology [Cf. OF. tant so great, F. tant so much, L. tantus of such size, so great, so much.]

Etymology [Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to tempt, to try, for tenter. See Tempt.]

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

Sanskrit

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