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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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daisy

/ˈdeɪ.zi/ noun, proper noun

Forms daisies Daisys daisie daysie

  1. noun A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
  2. noun Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
  3. noun (Cockney rhyming slang) A boot or other footwear.
  4. noun (colloquial) Something splendid; a doozy.
  5. proper noun A female given name from English.
  6. proper noun A common name for a cow.
  7. noun A Girl Scout at the initial introductory level.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.

From the flower daisy, one of the flower names dating from the 19th century. Also a nickname for Margaret, since Marguerite and Margarita are identical with the French and Spanish word for "daisy".

Named after Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low.

* Americanized form of a French habitational surname, from either of two places called Aisy.
* Variant of the Irish surname Dacey.
* From the flower name, probably used as a nickname.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane. Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species.

Etymology [OE. dayesye, AS. dæges day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye.]

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