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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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hazel

/ˈheɪzəl/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms hazels hazeler hazelest hazle Hasell Hazell

  1. noun (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
  2. noun (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
  3. noun (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
  4. noun (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
  5. noun (mining, countable) Freestone.
  6. adjective Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
  7. proper noun A female given name from English from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
  8. proper noun A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hazel tree.
  9. proper noun A minor city in Calloway County, Kentucky.
  10. proper noun A town in Hamlin County, South Dakota.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.

Synonyms

filbert hazelnut hazel tree Pomaderris apetala hazelnut tree

Etymology

From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”).
Cognate with Yola hawlse (“hazel”), Dutch hazel, hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Vilamovian hozuł (“hazel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Icelandic hesli (“hazel”), Norwegian Nynorsk hasl, hassel (“hazel”); also Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel”), Irish call, coll (“hazel”), Manx coull (“hazel”), Scottish Gaelic coll (“hazel”), Welsh cyll (“hazel trees”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.
  2. noun A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
  3. adjective Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
  4. adjective Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes." Shak.

Etymology [OE. hasel, AS. hæsel; akin to D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan & Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.]

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