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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gullet

/ˈɡʌl.ɪt/ noun, verb

Forms gullets gulleting gulleted

  1. noun The throat or esophagus.
  2. noun (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
  3. noun The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
  4. noun A channel for water.
  5. noun A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
  6. noun The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
  7. verb To make grooves or indentations.

Synonyms

gorge cytopharynx esophagus oesophagus

Etymology

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
  2. noun Something shaped like the food passage, or performing similar functions; as: (a) A channel for water.

Etymology [OE. golet, OF. Goulet, dim. of gole, goule, throat, F. gueule, L. gula; perh. akin to Skr. gula, G. kenle; cf. F. goulet the neck of a bottle, goulotte channel gutter. Cf. Gules, Gully.]

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

Sanskrit

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