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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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Eve

/iːv/ proper noun, noun

Also a form of ewe

Forms EVEs

  1. proper noun (Abrahamism, biblical) The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
  2. proper noun An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended. “The Seven Daughters of Eve; Mitochondrial Eve”
  3. proper noun A female given name from Hebrew.
  4. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
  5. proper noun An unincorporated community in Missouri, United States.
  6. proper noun (cryptography) A conventional name for an agent attempting to intercept a message sent by Alice that is intended for Bob.
  7. proper noun An English surname.
  8. noun The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. “She died on the eve of her 100th birthday.”
  9. noun (archaic, poetic) Evening, night. “on a cold winter's eve.”
  10. noun (figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced “the eve of a scientific discovery”

Synonyms

een eventide forenight evening even

Antonyms

evening winter

Etymology

From Middle English Eve, Eue, from Old English Ēua, Ēfe, from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).

A pun on eavesdropper.

Either a variant of Eaves or a matronymic from the given name.

From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
In medieval Europe, days were considered to extend from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight, so the night before a holiday was considered part of it, hence its "eve".

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Evening. [Poetic]
  2. noun The evening before a holiday, --from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; --called also night churr, and churr owl.

Etymology [See Even, n.]

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