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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tripod

UK /ˈtɹaɪpɒd/ · US /ˈtɹaɪpɑd/ noun, verb

Forms tripods tripoding tripoded

  1. noun A three-legged stand or mount. “Cameras often have tripod attachments, which help when taking steady photographs.”
  2. noun (zoology) An organism with three limbs.
  3. noun (science fiction) A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
  4. noun (sex, slang, humorous) Someone with a very large penis.
  5. verb (intransitive) To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress. “I tripodded after my 6-mile run.”
  6. verb (herpetology, intransitive) Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.

Synonyms

fighting-machine Thing

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tripod- (stem of tripūs, tripodis), from Ancient Greek τρίποδ- (trípod-, stem of τρίπους, τρίποδος (trípous, trípodos), literally “three-footed”); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus, tripos, and teapoy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
  2. noun A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument. Tripod of life, or Vital tripod (Physiol.), the three organs, the heart, lungs, and brain; --so called because their united action is necessary to the maintenance of life.

Etymology [L. tripus, -odis, Gr. Tri-) + Foot, and cf. Tripos, Trivet.]

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

Sanskrit

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