Klryz
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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wrangle

/ˈɹeɪ̯ŋɡəl/ verb, noun

Forms wrangles wrangling wrangled wranglest wrangledst wrangleth

  1. verb To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
  2. verb Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.
  3. verb To speak or write (something) in an argumentative or contentious manner.
  4. verb To spend (time) arguing or quarrelling.
  5. verb (Western US) To herd (horses or other livestock).
  6. verb (by extension, humorous) To manage or supervise (people).
  7. verb (figuratively) To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.
  8. verb Followed by out of: to compel or drive (someone or something) away through arguing.
  9. noun (countable) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation.
  10. noun (uncountable) Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling. “Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.”
  11. noun A contentious argument or response.
  12. noun A controversy.

Synonyms

munge altercate contend squabble barney bicker quarrel argue tiff tift quibble row pettifog jangle words run-in dustup haggle haggling wrangling brawl

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English wranglen, wrangle (“to contend with (someone) in a test of strength; (figuratively) to make misleading arguments to entrap”); from a Middle Dutch or Middle Low German word related to Middle Dutch wrangen and Middle Low German wrangen (“to cause an uproar; to struggle, wrestle”) (whence Low German wrangeln (“to wrangle”)), related to Middle Dutch wringen (“to twist; to wrest; to wring; to struggle, wrestle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wringaną (“to squeeze; to twist; to wring”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
* Danish vringle (“to twist, entangle”)
* German rangeln (“to wrestle”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To argue; to debate; to dispute. [Obs.]
  2. verb To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate. "In spite of occasional wranglings." Macaulay.
  3. verb To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil. [R.] Bp.
  4. noun An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.

Etymology [OE. wranglen to wrestle. See Wrong, Wring.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “wrangle” (best matches first).