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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girth

UK /ɡɜːθ/ · US /ɡɝθ/ noun, verb

Forms girths girthing girthed

  1. noun A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
  2. noun The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
  3. noun (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
  4. noun A small horizontal brace or girder.
  5. noun The distance measured around an object; the circumference.
  6. noun (graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
  7. verb To bind as if with a girth or band.

Synonyms

circumference cinch

Etymology

From Middle English girth, gerth, gyrth, from Old Norse gjǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *gerdō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; belt”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰 (gairda), Icelandic gjörð. Also related to German Gurt, English gird, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie, bind, fasten”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
  2. noun The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.
  3. verb To bind as with a girth. [R.] Johnson.

Etymology [Icel. gjör girdle, or ger girth; akin to Goth. gaírda girdle. See Gird to girt, and cf. Girdle, n.]

Etymology [From Girth, n., cf. Girt, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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