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Chicago

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The Chicago skyline

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    English Chicago

    From French Chécagou, a transcription of Miami šikaakwa (“wild leek, ramp, Allium tricoccum; striped skunk”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa; compare Ojibwe zhigaagawanzh / zhigaagawinzh (“onion, leek”), zhigaag (“striped skunk”). Doublet of skunk.

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    Chicago

    1. A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.
      Synonyms: (slang) Chi, (US, slang) Chiraq, (informal) Chi-Town, (US, informal) Hogtown, (vulgar, derogatory) Shitcago, (informal) The Windy City
      • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, page 3:
        I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
      • 2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 7, Norm Macdonald (actor):
        Chicago is now #1 in murder and sausages. That sounds like my kind of town!

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    1. ^ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎[1], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 49.
    2. ^ “Dialects Of Illinois, Chicago samples 3 and 6”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2], 2012 August 21 (last accessed), archived from the original on 21 August 2012
    3. ^ Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's pronunciation of the city's name
    4. ^ Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's pronunciation of the city's name
    5. ^ “Welcome Back, Amphitheatre”, in Chicago Tribune, 1987 December 7, page 20: “And, in a uniquely Chicago way, it was host for a perpetual, cosmopolitan feast of sights, sounds and smells.”
    6. ^ Vincent M. Lizzo (1994 April 22) “City of Rain”, in Chicago Reader‎[3]: “Some of our real police-type deputies set up a deal on him and took him down in just two days. A very Chicago kind of crime, complete with a moral: the police don't tolerate outsiders messing on their turf.”
    7. ^ Elizabeth Canning Blackwell (2004) Frommer's Portable Chicago‎[4], 4th edition, →ISBN, page 81: “Heavy, filling and very Chicago, Mr. Beef really hops during lunchtime, when dusty construction workers and suit-wearing businessmen crowd in for their meaty fix.”

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    Chicago m

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

    Czech

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    Chicago n (related adjective chicagský)

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

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    Declension of Chicago (sg-only velar neuter)
    singular
    nominative Chicago
    genitive Chicaga
    dative Chicagu
    accusative Chicago
    vocative Chicago
    locative Chicagu
    instrumental Chicagem

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    • “Chicago”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
    • “Chicago”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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    Borrowed from English Chicago.

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    • IPA(key): /ˌʃiˈkaː.ɡoː/, /ˌtʃiˈkaː.ɡoː/
    • Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go

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    Chicago n

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

    French

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    Chicago f

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

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    • IPA(key): /ʃiˈkaːɡo/, (by hypercorrection also) /tʃiˈkaːɡo/

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    Chicago n (proper noun, genitive Chicagos or (optionally with an article) Chicago)

    1. Chicago (a major city in Illinois, United States)

    Hungarian

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     Chicago on Hungarian Wikipedia

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    • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃikaːɡoː]
    • Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go
    • Rhymes: -ɡoː

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    Chicago

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

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    Inflection of Chicago
    singular plural
    nominative Chicago —
    accusative Chicagót —
    dative Chicagónak —
    instrumental Chicagóval —
    causal-final Chicagóért —
    translative Chicagóvá —
    terminative Chicagóig —
    essive-formal Chicagóként —
    essive-modal — —
    inessive Chicagóban —
    superessive Chicagón —
    adessive Chicagónál —
    illative Chicagóba —
    sublative Chicagóra —
    allative Chicagóhoz —
    elative Chicagóból —
    delative Chicagóról —
    ablative Chicagótól —
    non-attributive
    possessive - singular         		Chicagóé —
    non-attributive
    possessive - plural         		Chicagóéi —
    Possessive forms of Chicago
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. Chicagóm —
    2nd person sing. Chicagód —
    3rd person sing. Chicagója —
    1st person plural Chicagónk —
    2nd person plural Chicagótok —
    3rd person plural Chicagójuk —

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    Italian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English, from Miami šikaakwa (“wild leek, ramp; striped skunk”), via the French transcription Chécagou.

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    • IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.ɡo/, (careful style) */ʃiˈka.ɡo/[1]
    • Rhymes: -aɡo
    • Hyphenation: Chi‧cà‧go

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    Chicago f

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois)

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    1. ^ Chicago in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

    Portuguese

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    Borrowed from English Chicago.

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    • Rhymes: -aɡu
    • Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go

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    Chicago

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

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    Chicago n (genitive singular Chicaga, declension pattern of mesto)

    1. Chicago (a city in Illinois, United States)

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    • “Chicago”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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    • IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈkaɡo/ [t͡ʃiˈka.ɣ̞o]
    • IPA(key): (less common, imitating English pronunciation) /ʃiˈkaɡo/ [ʃiˈka.ɣ̞o]
    • Rhymes: -aɡo
    • Syllabification: Chi‧ca‧go

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    Chicago ?

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

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    Chicago

    1. Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

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        declension of Chicago
    Nominative Chicago
    Genitive Chicagonıñ
    Dative Chicagoga
    Accusative Chicagonı
    Locative Chicagoda
    Ablative Chicagodan

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