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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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tiller

UK /ˈtɪlə/ · US /ˈtɪlɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tillers tillering tillered tillow

  1. noun A person who tills; a farmer.
  2. noun A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
  3. noun (obsolete) A young tree.
  4. noun A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
  5. verb (intransitive) To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
  6. noun (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
  7. noun (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
  8. noun (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
  9. noun (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
  10. noun A handle; a stalk.
  11. noun The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
  12. noun (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
  13. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
  15. proper noun A suburb of Trondheim, formerly a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

Synonyms

cultivator stool

Etymology

From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.

From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).

From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).

Capitalization of tiller

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  2. noun (a) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
  3. noun A young timber tree. [Prov. Eng.] Evelyn.
  4. verb To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering. [Sometimes written tillow.]

Etymology [From Till, v. t.]

Etymology [AS. telgor a small branch. Cf. Till to cultivate.]

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