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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abdominal

UK /æbˈdɒm.ə.nl̩/ · US /æbˈdɑm.ə.nl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms abdominals

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral. “abdominal muscles”
  2. adjective (humorous, archaic) Characterized by or possessing a large abdomen; corpulent, pot-bellied. “The moment they had passed, the pikes clashed together horizontally to bar the gateway, and all but pinned an abdominal citizen that sought to wedge in along with them.”
  3. adjective (ichthyology) Having the ventral fins under the abdomen and behind the pectoral fins.
  4. adjective (ichthyology) Ventral, in describing a fin.
  5. adjective (zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the order Abdominales of fish.
  6. noun (zoology, obsolete) A fish of the order Abdominales.
  7. noun (colloquial, usually in the plural) An abdominal muscle.

Synonyms

ventral Cypriniformes abs abdominal muscle ab

Etymology

First attested in 1746. From New Latin abdōminālis, from Latin abdōmen. Equivalent to abdomin- + -al. Compare French abdominal.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.
  2. adjective Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; --called also inguinal ring.
  3. noun A fish of the group Abdominales.

Etymology [Cf. F. abdominal.]

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

Sanskrit

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