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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where eight actions must be performed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Old English eahta Middle English eighte English eight Old English -as Middle English -es English -s Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y ▲ English -s English -sies English eightsies From eight + -sies (“diminutive suffix”).
