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

bathe

/beɪð/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms bathes bathing bathed

  1. verb (intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
  2. verb (intransitive) To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
  3. verb (transitive) To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. “We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time.”
  4. verb (transitive) To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid. “She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.”
  5. verb (figuratively, transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround. “The room was bathed in moonlight.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To sunbathe. “The women bathed in the sun.”
  7. noun (UK, colloquial) The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. “I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight.”
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bath

Etymology

From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
  2. verb To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold.
  3. verb To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer." Waller.
  4. verb To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in fiery floods." Shak. "Bathe in the dimples of her cheek." Lloyd.

Etymology [OE. ba, AS. ba, fr. bæ bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe.]

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

Sanskrit

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