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

“pillows” is a form of

pillow

UK /ˈpɪ.ləʊ/ · US /ˈpɪ.loʊ/ [ˈpʰɪ.loʊ] noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pillows pillowing pillowed Pellow

  1. noun A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
  2. noun Any similar head support used for sleep, such as a neck pillow or a hard porcelain pillow. “She slept with her head on the pillow.”
  3. noun (geology) A pillow lava.
  4. noun (engineering) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
  5. noun (nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
  6. noun The socket of a pivot.
  7. noun (uncountable) A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
  8. noun (chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast, especially when large and seemingly soft.
  9. verb (transitive) To rest as on a pillow.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

rest

Etymology

From Middle English pilwe, from Old English pyle, pylu (“pillow”), from Proto-West Germanic *pulwī (“pillow”), from Latin pulvīnus (“cushion”), derived from pulvis (“dust”), for the filler of a pillow. Doublet of pulvinus.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Peel (“pillow”), Alemannic German Pfulme (“pillow”), Dutch peluw (“a long, narrow pillow”), German Pfühl (“a big and soft pillow”), German Low German Pöhl (“pad, pillow, cushion”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.
  2. noun A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.]
  3. verb To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.

Etymology [OE. pilwe, AS. pyle, fr. L. pilvinus.]

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

Sanskrit

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