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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chinquapin

/ˈt͡ʃɪnkəpɪn/ noun

Forms chinquapins chinkapin chincapin

  1. noun Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
  2. noun Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
  3. noun Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
  4. noun Any in the genus Castanopsis of trees.
  5. noun Any in the genus Chrysolepis of trees and shrubs.
  6. noun Quercus muehlenbergii, a tree whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
  7. noun A water chinquapin, an aquatic plant of species Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
  8. noun A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).

Synonyms

chinkapin oak shellcracker Georgia bream cherry gill chinkapin improved bream rouge ear sunfish sun perch Ozark chinkapin Ozark chinquapin Castanea ozarkensis Allegheny chinkapin eastern chinquapin dwarf chestnut Castanea pumila chincapin

Etymology

Like its cognate / alternative form chinkapin, chinquapin is an alteration of chechinquamin / chincomen (the form found in early records), from an Algonquian language (sometimes said specifically to be from Powhatan). The final element is *mini (“berry, fruit”). Hewitt suggested that the first element was a word meaning "large, great" cognate to xinkw- (“big, large, great”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut.

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