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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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buckeye

/ˈbʌkaɪ/ noun, proper noun

Forms buckeyes

  1. noun Any of several species of trees of the genus Aesculus.
  2. noun Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut).
  3. noun Any of several species of the related Mexican buckeye (genus Ungnadia).
  4. noun Seed or fruit of these plants.
  5. noun (US, slang) A native or resident of the American state of Ohio.
  6. noun Any member of the species Junonia coenia of butterflies; a common buckeye.
  7. noun (US) A confection made from peanut butter fudge partially dipped in chocolate to leave a circle of peanut butter visible, supposed to resemble the nut of the Ohio buckeye tree.
  8. noun A native or resident of the American states of Ohio or Arizona.
  9. proper noun A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
  11. proper noun A former travel station in Plumas County, California.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Yolo County, California, named for buckeye trees there.
  13. proper noun Former name of Carbondale, Amador County, California.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Larimer County, Colorado.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Salamonie Township, Huntingdon County, Indiana.
  16. proper noun A minor city in Hardin County, Iowa.

Synonyms

Ohioan horse chestnut conker Aesculus hippocastanum

Etymology

The name stems from Native Americans, who called the nut "hetuck," which means "buck eye" (because the markings on the nut resemble the eye of a deer).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Æsculus glabra.
  2. noun A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.] Buckeye State, Ohio; --so called because buckeye trees abound there.

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