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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midwife

/ˈmɪd.waɪf/ noun, verb

Forms midwives midwifes midwifing midwifed midwive

  1. noun A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician. “A hundred years ago, a midwife would bring the baby into the world - going to a hospital to deliver a baby was either impossible or unheard of.”
  2. noun (rare, figuratively) Someone who assists in bringing about some result or project.
  3. verb (transitive) To act as a midwife.
  4. verb (transitive, figuratively) To facilitate the emergence of.

Synonyms

accoucheuse

Etymology

From Middle English midwif, corresponding to mid (“with”) + wif (“woman, wife, female”). It appears not to be entirely clear whether the original understanding was “with-woman” in the sense of “attending/assisting woman”, or “they who are with the woman” (namely the mother).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.
  2. verb To assist in childbirth.
  3. verb To perform the office of midwife.

Etymology [OE. midwif, fr. AS. mid with (akin to Gr. Meta-, and Wife.]

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

Sanskrit

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