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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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skip

/skɪp/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of skipper

Forms skips skipping skipped skippest skippedst skippeth skippy

  1. verb (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet. “She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
  3. verb (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. “The rock will skip across the pond.”
  4. verb (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. “I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.”
  5. verb (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage). “My heart will skip a beat.”
  6. verb (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). “Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.”
  7. verb (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner. “to skip the country”
  8. verb To leap lightly over. “to skip the rope”
  9. noun A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
  10. noun The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
  11. noun (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
  12. noun (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
  13. noun A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
  14. noun (radio) skywave propagation
  15. noun (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
  16. noun (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
  17. noun (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
  18. noun (steelmaking) A skip car.
  19. noun (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
  20. noun A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.

Synonyms

play hooky dumpster skep grandboss omission jump pass over skip over cut hop hop-skip decamp vamoose bound off skim skitter

Antonyms

stack

Etymology

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).

A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A basket. See Skep. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  2. noun A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
  3. verb To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; --commonly implying a sportive spirit.
  4. verb Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; --often followed by over.

Etymology [See Skep.]

Etymology [OE. skippen, of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skopa run, skoppa to spin like a top, OSw. & dial. Sw. skimmpa to run, skimpa, skompa, to hop, skip; or Ir. sgiob to snatch, Gael. sgiab to start or move suddenly, to snatch, W. ysgipio to snatch.]

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

Sanskrit

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