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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venter

/ˈvɛn.tə(ɹ)/ noun, proper noun

Forms venters

  1. noun A woman with offspring.
  2. noun (zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod.
  3. noun (botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.
  4. noun A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone.
  5. noun One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems.
  6. noun (obsolete) A vendor.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

abdomen stomach belly

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

Cognate with Dutch venter (“vendor, peddler”).

Borrowed from German and Dutch Venter. This surname is mostly found in South Africa.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes. [R.]
  2. noun (a) The belly; the abdomen; --sometimes applied to any large cavity containing viscera.
  3. noun The lower part of the abdomen in insects.

Etymology [L.]

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