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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

stomach

/ˈstʌmək/ noun, verb

Forms stomachs stomaching stomached stomack

  1. noun An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
  2. noun (informal) The belly. “Why did you hit me in the stomach?”
  3. noun (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
  4. noun (obsolete) An appetite. “a good stomach for roast beef”
  5. noun (figuratively) A desire, an appetite (for something abstract). “I have no stomach for a fight today.”
  6. noun The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
  7. verb (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something. “I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.”
  8. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
  9. verb (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  10. verb (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

Synonyms

belly abdomen tummy bouk gut guts maw brook put up with tum breadbasket venter digest endure stick out bear stand tolerate support abide suffer put up

Etymology

From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Partially displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
  2. noun The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. Shak.
  3. verb To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak.
  4. verb To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]

Etymology [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus, fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or entrance.]

Etymology [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be angry or vexed at a thing.]

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

Sanskrit

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