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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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gill

/ɡɪl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms gills gilling gilled ghyll

  1. noun (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
  2. noun (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover. “Gill nets are designed to catch a fish by the gills.”
  3. noun (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
  4. noun (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
  5. noun (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
  6. noun (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
  7. verb To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.
  8. verb (transitive) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
  9. verb (intransitive) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
  10. noun A drink measure for spirits and wine, a quarter of an imperial pint or near to that amount, but varying regionally.
  11. noun (dated, US) A unit of measure equal to 4 US fluid ounces (half a cup, a quarter of a US pint), approximately 118 milliliters.
  12. noun (archaic, UK) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
  13. noun (UK) A rivulet, small stream.
  14. noun (UK) A ravine.
  15. noun A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
  16. noun (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton.
  17. noun (obsolete) A prostitute.
  18. noun (obsolete) gill-over-the-ground: ground ivy.
  19. noun (obsolete) gill-ale: an ale made with ground ivy among its ingredients.
  20. verb (obsolete) To act as a prostitute.

Synonyms

lamella branchia promiscuous woman prostitute prostitute oneself

Etymology

From Middle English gille, gylle (“gill”), of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish gælle, Swedish gäl, Norwegian gjelle, and further to Old Norse gjǫlnar (“lips”), which also may have had the meaning of "gills" (based on Old Danish fiskegæln (“gills”)). The Old Norse word has been suggested as deriving from Proto-Germanic *gelunō (“jaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-, which would make it root-cognate to Ancient Greek χελύνη (khelúnē, “lip, jaw”), χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”).
Displaced native Old English ċīe.

From Middle English gille, from Old French gille (“a wine measure”), from Medieval Latin gillo (“earthenware jar”).

From Middle English gille, from Old Norse gil.

Uncertain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
  2. noun pl. (Bot.)
  3. noun A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. noun A leech. [Also gell.] [Scot.] Jameison.

Etymology [Dan. giælle, gelle; akin to Sw. gäl, Icel. gjölnar gills; cf. AS. geagl, geahl, jaw.]

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

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