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

pod

UK /ˈpɒd/ · US /ˈpɑd/ noun, verb

Forms pods podding podded

  1. noun (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
  2. noun A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
  3. noun A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.
  4. noun A nicotine cartridge.
  5. noun (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
  6. noun A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
  7. noun A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
  8. noun (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
  9. verb (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
  10. verb (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
  11. verb (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
  12. verb (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Synonyms

capsule case container hull husk shell seedpod vessel escape pod gam cod seedcase fuel pod

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.
  2. noun A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit.
  3. verb To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
  4. verb A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.

Etymology [Probably akin to pudding, and perhaps the same word as pad a cushion; cf. also Dan. pude pillow, cushion, and also E. cod a husk, pod.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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