different between firewood vs kippen

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fa?.?(?).w?d/
• (Upper RP Triphthong Smoothing) IPA^(key): /?fa.?(?).w?d/, /?fa?(?).w?d/, /?f?.?(?).w?d/, /?f?.??(?).w?d/
• (General American) enPR: f???rwo?od, f?r, IPA^(key): /?fa?.?.w?d/, [?fa?.?.w?d]
• (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA^(key): [?fä?.?.w?d]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?f?e.?(?).w?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology

From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire +? wood.

Noun

firewood (countable and uncountable, plural firewoods)

1. Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.

   After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.

Descendants

• Chinese Pidgin English: firewood, ??????

Translations

Anagrams

• woodfire

Chinese Pidgin English

Alternative forms

• ?????? (Chinese characters)

Etymology

From English firewood.

Noun

firewood

1. firewood

English

Alternative forms

• kippeen (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish cipín (“stick used for planting; matchstick”).

Noun

kippen (plural kippens)

1. (dialectal) A piece of small firewood or kindling; dibber

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p?n

Noun

kippen

1. Plural form of kip

Anagrams

• knippe

German

Etymology

An originally Low German and Central German word of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Kippe (etymology 1).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p?n/, [?k?p?n], [?k?pm?]

Verb

kippen (weak, third-person singular present kippt, past tense kippte, past participle gekippt, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (transitive) to tilt [auxiliary haben]
2. (transitive) to dump; to pour [auxiliary haben]
3. (intransitive) to tip over [auxiliary sein]

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abkippen
• ankippen
• auskippen
• runterkippen
• umkippen
• wegkippen
• Kippe (etymology 2)
• Kipper
• Kippschwingung
• Kippstufe