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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nipple

/ˈnɪp.əl/ noun, verb

Forms nipples nippling nippled neple nypil nyppell neapel neaple neble

  1. noun (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
  2. noun The nipple (noun sense 1) and the areola together.
  3. noun A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner.
  4. noun An artificial nipple (noun sense 1) used for bottle-feeding infants.
  5. noun Any small physical protrusion, such as the lumps on the F and J keys on computer keyboards.
  6. noun Any small physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a groove on another part.
  7. noun (now chiefly historical) A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed.
  8. noun (plumbing, chiefly US) A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector.
  9. verb (transitive) To fit (a baby's bottle, etc.) with a nipple.
  10. verb (transitive) To give one's nipple to (a baby) to allow breastfeeding.

Synonyms

tit nipples blinkers braille bullets bumps chichis circuit breakers cookies daggers diamond cutters dinner plates glass cutters high beams headlights horns nertz nips nubbins pancakes mammilla mamilla pap teat

Etymology

From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
  2. noun The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. [R.] Derham.

Etymology [Formerly neble, a dim. of neb. See Neb, Nib.]

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

Sanskrit

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