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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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tomahawk

UK /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/ · US /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tomahawks tomahawking tomahawked

  1. noun An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.
  2. noun (basketball) A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
  3. noun (geometry) A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.
  4. noun (field hockey) A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.
  5. verb (transitive) To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
  6. verb (historical, transitive) To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.
  7. verb (basketball, transitive) To perform a tomahawk dunk.
  8. noun (military) The BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings, which can be launched from a ship or submarine.
  9. proper noun A rural locality in Dorset council area, north-east Tasmania, Australia.
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Parkland County, Alberta, Canada.
  11. proper noun A township in Searcy County, Arkansas.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Martin County, Kentucky.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
  14. proper noun A city in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
  15. proper noun A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, adjacent to the city.

Synonyms

hatchet

Etymology

From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“axe”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“axe”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.
  2. verb To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

Etymology [Of American Indian origin; cf. Algonkin tomehagen, Mohegan tumnahegan, Delaware tamoihecan.]

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