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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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potato

/pəˈteɪ.toʊ/ noun, verb, interjection

Forms potatoes potatoing potatoed potatoe p'tater tater

  1. noun The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum.
  2. noun The plant that produces this tuber.
  3. noun (obsolete) A sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas).
  4. noun (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
  5. noun (often endearing, sometimes derogatory) A person or animal shaped like a potato, that is, with a large belly and/or short legs.
  6. noun Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
  7. noun (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
  8. noun (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures or videos.
  9. verb (slang, transitive) To hit very hard; to pummel.
  10. verb (transitive) To hit with a thrown or fired potato.
  11. interjection (onomatopoeia, often repeated) The rhythmic sound produced by a V-twin engine—a distinctive deep, throaty exhaust note.

Synonyms

p'tater spud tato tater tator tatie earthapple mickey murphy bog orange Donovan Irish apricot Irish fruit toaster white potato Irish potato white potato vine Solanum tuberosum

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”). Doublet of batata.

Webster’s 1913

Etymology [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.]

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

Sanskrit

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