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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bodice

UK /ˈbɒdɪs/ · US /ˈbɑdɪs/ noun

Forms bodices boddice

  1. noun A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
  2. noun A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.
  3. noun The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt, sometimes specifically excluding the sleeves.
  4. noun An underbodice: an undershirt for women.
  5. noun (archaic) Particularly a corset or other undershirt stiffened with whalebone.

Etymology

From bodies, plural of body (“upper part of a dress”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
  2. noun A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.

Etymology [This is properly the plural of body, Oe. bodise a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf. Corset, and see Body.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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