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

bladder

UK /ˈblædə/ · US /ˈblædɚ/ noun, verb

Forms bladders bladdering bladdered blather blether

  1. noun (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
  2. noun (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
  3. noun (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
  4. noun The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
  5. noun A container in the form of a flexible bag. “a fuel bladder”
  6. noun A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
  7. noun (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
  8. verb To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
  9. verb (transitive) To store or put up in bladders. “bladdered lard”

Synonyms

vesica

Etymology

From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; --applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
  2. noun Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
  3. verb To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.
  4. verb To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

Etymology [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl, bl; akin to Icel. bla, SW. bläddra, Dan. blære, D. blaar, OHG. blatara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. blawan, E. blow, to puff. See Blow to puff.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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