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

birth

UK /bɜːθ/ · US /bɜɹθ/ noun, adjective, verb

Also a form of berth

Forms births birthing birthed

  1. noun (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
  2. noun (countable) An instance of childbirth. “Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.”
  3. noun (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin. “the birth of an empire”
  4. noun (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing. “He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.”
  5. noun That which is born.
  6. adjective A familial relationship established by childbirth. “Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.”
  7. verb (transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).
  8. verb (transitive, figuratively) To produce, give rise to.

Synonyms

biological blood consanguineous nativity nascency nascence parturition giving birth birthing parentage give birth deliver bear have

Antonyms

death

Etymology

From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ġebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear + -th (thus a piecewise doublet of berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ġebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰŕ̥tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear.

From Middle English birthen, birðen, from the noun (see above).

See berth.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; --generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
  2. noun Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
  3. noun See Berth. [Obs.] De Foe.

Etymology [OE. burth, birth, AS. beor, gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorate, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought forth. Bear, and cf. Berth.]

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

Sanskrit

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

All 287 Sanskrit matches →