Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

pippin

noun, proper noun

Forms pippins

noun A seed.
noun Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red.
noun Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties.
noun An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted) or its fruit.
noun (slang, dated) An excellent or admirable person or thing.
proper noun A surname.
proper noun A male given name.

Etymology

From Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin). See pip.

Probably from Middle English pipin (“a seed”), as being raised from the seed.

Etymology [Probably fr. OE. pippin a seed, as being raised from the seed. See Pip a seed.]

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