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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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maggot

/ˈmæɡət/ noun, verb

Forms maggots maggoting maggoted

  1. noun A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
  2. noun (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A worthless, obnoxious or contemptible person. “Drop and give me fifty, maggot.”
  3. noun (archaic or dialect) A whimsy or fancy.
  4. noun (slang) A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
  5. verb (transitive) To rid (an animal) of maggots.

Synonyms

grub

Etymology

From Middle English magot, magat, maked, probably a metathetic alteration of maddock, maðek (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Proto-West Germanic *maþō, from Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made + -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask, Icelandic maðkur (“worm, grub, maggot”).
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in their brain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
  2. noun A whim; an odd fancy. Hudibras. Tennyson.

Etymology [W. macai, pl. maceiod, magiod, a worn or grub; cf. magu to bread.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “maggot” (best matches first).