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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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haw

/hɔː/ interjection, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms haws hawing hawed

  1. interjection An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw). “You think that song was good? Haw!”
  2. interjection An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
  3. verb To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
  4. noun Fruit of the hawthorn.
  5. noun (historical) A hedge.
  6. noun (obsolete) Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
  7. interjection An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
  8. verb (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left. “This horse won't haw when I tell him to.”
  9. verb To cause (an animal) to turn left. “You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.”
  10. noun (countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
  11. noun (uncountable) A disease of the nictitating membrane.
  12. proper noun A topographic and patronymic surname transferred from the given name.
  13. proper noun A river in the US state of North Carolina.

Synonyms

hawthorn berry hawthorn

Antonyms

gee

Etymology

From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).

From Middle English hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”), Norwegian Bokmål hage (“garden”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰom (compare Welsh cae (“field”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian кош (koš, “tent”), коша́ра (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “curtain wall”)), from *kagʰ- 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”).

Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)

Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
  2. noun The fruit of the hawthorn. Bacon.
  3. noun The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
  4. noun An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made. "Hums or haws." Congreve.

Etymology [OE. hawe, AS. haga; akin to D. haag headge, G. hag, hecke, Icel. hagi pasture, Sw. hage, Dan. have garden. Haggard, Ha- ha, Haugh, Hedge.]

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

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