guts

(gəts)

1. n. courage; bravado. It takes guts to do something like that.

2. n. the belly; the intestines. I’ve got some kind of pain in the guts.

3. n. the inner workings of anything. There’s something wrong in the guts of this clock.

4. n. the essence of something. Let’s discuss the real guts of this issue.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aabraham	AH:B-rah-hahm	Finnish
Meino	MIE-no (German, Dutch)	German, Dutch, Ancient Germanic
Maggie	['mægi]
Edelmira	-	Spanish
Bogdan	BAWG-dahn (Polish), BOG-dahn (Serbian, Croatian), bog-DAHN (Romanian)	Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Faina	fah-EE-nah	Russian