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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

beach

/biːt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms beaches beaching beached Beachs

  1. noun The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
  2. noun A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
  3. noun (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
  4. noun (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap.
  5. noun (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
  6. verb (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
  7. verb (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
  8. verb (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun A surname from English
  11. proper noun A surname from landforms
  12. proper noun A surname from German
  13. proper noun A hamlet in Bitton parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref ST7070).
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Ware County, Georgia.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Webster County, Missouri.
  16. proper noun A small city, the county seat of Golden Valley County, North Dakota.

Synonyms

backshore sand strand gravel trap

Etymology

From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“flowing water”).
Cognate with Cimbrian pach (“brook, creek, stream”), Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), German Low German Beek (“brook, stream”), Luxembourgish Baach (“brook, stream”), Mòcheno pòch (“brook, creek, stream”), Vilamovian bāh, baoch (“brook, stream”), Danish bæk (“brook”), Icelandic bekkur (“creek, spring, stream”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bekk (“brook, creek, stream”), Swedish bäck (“brook, creek, stream”); also Lithuanian banga (“billow, wave”). More at batch, beck.

English surname reflecting multiple origins, including the nouns beach and beech, and Americanized from the German surname Bisch.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
  2. noun The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas.
  3. verb To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Etymology [Cf. Sw. backe hill, Dan. bakke, Icel. bakki hill, bank. Cf. Bank.]

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

Sanskrit

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