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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nerve

UK /nɜːv/ · US /nɝv/ noun, verb

Forms nerves nerving nerved

  1. noun A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics. “The nerves can be seen through the skin.”
  2. noun (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
  3. noun (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood. “Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.”
  4. noun Courage; boldness; audacity; gall. “He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.”
  5. noun Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude. “The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories”
  6. noun (in the plural) One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche. “All these rationalizations for asinine behavior are getting on my nerves.”
  7. noun (in the plural) Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions. “Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test; she was a bundle of nerves.”
  8. noun (polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
  9. verb (transitive) To give courage. “May their example nerve us to face the enemy.”
  10. verb (transitive) To give strength; to supply energy or vigour. “The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.”
  11. verb (transitive, informal) To perform a neurectomy on (someone or something).
  12. verb (transitive, informal, rare) To get on (someone’s) nerves; to annoy, irritate, or bother (someone).
  13. verb (intransitive, informal, rare) To be nervous.

Synonyms

brashness brazenness balls audacity bield boldhead boldness bravehood valor braveness bravery courage courageousness daring fearlessness grit guts heart intrepidity intrepidness nervus mettle spunk brass face cheek steel

Etymology

Recorded since circa 1374 as Middle English nerve, from Medieval Latin nervus (“nerve”), from Latin nervus (“sinew”). Doublet of neuron and sinew.
Verb sense 4 (“to get on (someone’s) nerves”) is chiefly a semantic loan from German nerven.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
  2. noun A sinew or a tendon. Pope.
  3. verb To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

Etymology [OE. nerfe, F. nerf, L. nervus, akin to Gr. needle. Cf. Neuralgia.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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