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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germ

UK /d͡ʒɜːm/ · US /d͡ʒɝm/ noun, verb

Forms germs germing germed

  1. noun The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
  2. noun (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud. “surgical removal of germs of wisdom teeth”
  3. noun A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
  4. noun (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project. “the germ of civil liberty”
  5. noun (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
  6. verb To germinate.
  7. verb (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.
  8. noun (UK, slang, derogatory) a German person.

Synonyms

source seed microbe bug

Etymology

From Middle French germe, from Latin germen (“bud, seed, embryo”). Doublet of germen.

Clipping of German, from the phonetic similarity to germ.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.
  2. noun That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty. Disease germ (Biol.), a name applied to certain tiny bacterial organisms or their spores, such as Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcus of fowl cholera, which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases. See Germ theory (bellow).
  3. verb To germinate. [R.] J. Morley.

Etymology [F. germe, fr. L. germen, germinis, sprout, but, germ. Cf. Germen, Germane.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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