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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pouch

/paʊt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms pouches pouching pouched

  1. noun A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  2. noun (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  3. noun Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  4. noun (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  5. noun A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  6. noun (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  7. noun A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
  8. verb (transitive) To enclose within a pouch. “The beggar pouched the coin.”
  9. verb (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. “We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.”
  10. verb (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
  11. verb (obsolete, rare) To pout.
  12. verb (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

Synonyms

marsupium sac sack pocket bulge protrude

Etymology

From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
  2. noun That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; --so called in ridicule.
  3. verb To put or take into a pouch.
  4. verb To swallow; --said of fowls. Derham.

Etymology [F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a bag, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder.]

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

Sanskrit

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