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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bosom

/ˈbʊz(ə)m/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms bosoms bosoming bosomed bosome

  1. noun (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
  2. noun The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
  3. noun The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
  4. noun The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
  5. noun A breast, one of a woman's breasts
  6. noun Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
  7. noun A depression round the eye of a millstone.
  8. adjective In a very close relationship.
  9. verb To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
  10. verb To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
  11. verb (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
  12. verb (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

Synonyms

breasts embrace heart breast knocker boob tit titty hug squeeze

Etymology

From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
  2. noun The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; se Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it. Shak.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to the bosom.
  4. adjective Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.

Etymology [AS. b; akin to D. bozem, Fries. b, OHG. puosum, G. busen, and prob. E. bough.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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