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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vomit

UK /ˈvɒmɪt/ · US /ˈvɑmɪt/ verb, noun

Forms vomits vomiting vomited

  1. verb (intransitive) To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
  2. verb (transitive) To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew.
  3. verb To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit. “She snapped and started vomiting curses at us.”
  4. noun The regurgitated former contents of a stomach; vomitus.
  5. noun The act of regurgitating.
  6. noun The act of vomiting.
  7. noun (informal) Anything that is worthless; rubbish; trash.
  8. noun (obsolete, countable) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.

Synonyms

barf be sick bring up chunder hurl lose one's lunch puke shoot the cat sick spew spew up throw up bait boke boot honk pavement pizza purging ralph sprog vomitus emetic vomitive nauseant vomiting emesis regurgitation disgorgement puking vomit up

Antonyms

keep down

Etymology

From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
  2. verb To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; --often followed by up or out. The fish . . . vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah ii. 10.
  3. verb Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc. Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke. Milton.
  4. noun Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.

Etymology [Cf. L. vomere, vomitum, and v. freq. vomitare. See Vomit, n.]

Etymology [L. vomitus, from vomere, vomitum, to vomit; akin to Gr. vam, Lith. vemiti. Cf. Emetic, Vomito.]

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

Sanskrit

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