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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belch

/ˈbɛltʃ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms belches belching belched

  1. verb (ambitransitive, immunology) To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so loudly.
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise. “Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.”
  3. noun An instance of belching; the sound that it makes.
  4. noun (obsolete) Malt liquor.
  5. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

burp belching burping eructation bubble eruct erupt extravasate

Etymology

From Middle English belchen, from Old English bielċan, from Proto-Germanic *balkijaną, *belkaną, probably ultimately of imitative origin.
Related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”), Low German bölken (“to shout, bark”), Old English bealċettan (“to utter, send forth”). See also English bolk, boak.

Variant of Balch.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
  2. verb To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.
  3. verb To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.
  4. verb To issue with spasmodic force or noise. Dryden.

Etymology [OE. belken, AS. bealcan, akin to E. bellow. See Bellow, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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