break one's fall

Interrupt a tumble or descent, as in It's a long way down over this cliff, with nothing to break your fall. [Mid-1800s]

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nimue	NIM-oo-ay	Arthurian Romance
Nico	NEE-ko (Italian, Dutch, Spanish)	Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Albina	[æl'bainə]
Albertas	-	Lithuanian
Zvjezdana	ZVYEZ-dah-nah	Croatian
Greger	-	Swedish