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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gut

/ɡʌt/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms guts gutting gutted

  1. noun The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
  2. noun (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged. “You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.”
  3. noun (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
  4. noun A person's emotional, visceral self. “I have a funny feeling in my gut.”
  5. noun (informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging. “You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.”
  6. noun (now especially in place names) A narrow channel, passage, or stream of water. (Compare gote.) “the Gut of Canso”
  7. noun The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
  8. verb (transitive) To eviscerate. “The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.”
  9. verb (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of. “Fire gutted the building.”
  10. verb (transitive) To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of). “They were gutted by the court's decision.”
  11. adjective Made of gut. “a violin with gut strings”
  12. adjective Instinctive. “gut reaction”
  13. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

alimentary canal digestive system guts intestine tharm innards abdomen beer belly beer gut belly paunch potbelly stomach tum tummy catgut bowel

Etymology

From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.
The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

* As a German, Alemannic German, and Jewish surname, variant of Guth. Also compare Gutmann.
* As an English surname, from the noun gut. See Gott.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
  2. noun An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
  3. verb To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
  4. verb To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.

Etymology [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to geótan to pour. See FOUND to cast.]

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

Sanskrit

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