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

“bellies” is a form of

belly

/ˈbɛli/ noun, verb

Forms bellies bellying bellied bellie

  1. noun The abdomen (especially a fat one). “You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”
  2. noun stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion) “My belly was full of wine.”
  3. noun (anatomy, countable) uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
  4. noun The lower fuselage of an airplane.
  5. noun The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part). “the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship”
  6. noun The main curved portion of a knife blade.
  7. noun (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
  8. verb To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
  9. verb (intransitive) To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
  10. verb (transitive) To cause to swell out; to fill.

Synonyms

matrix metra uterus womb abdomen midriff stomach tum tummy tum-tum ventrum venter paunch belly out

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
For the belly — bellows relation, compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
  2. noun The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
  3. verb To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.]
  4. verb To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.

Etymology [OE. bali, bely, AS. belg, bælg, bælig, bag, bellows, belly; akin to Icel. belgr bag, bellows, Sw. bälg, Dan. bælg, D. & G. balg, cf. W. bol the paunch or belly, dim. boly, Ir. bolg. Cf. Bellows, Follicle, Fool, Bilge.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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