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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chatter

UK /ˈtʃætə/ · US /ˈt͡ʃætɚ/ noun, verb

Forms chatters chattering chattered

  1. noun Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
  2. noun The sound of talking.
  3. noun The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
  4. noun The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
  5. noun An intermittent noise, as from vibration. “Proper brake adjustment will help to reduce the chatter.”
  6. noun (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity. “The NSA is concerned about increased chatter between known terror groups.”
  7. noun (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
  8. noun (countable, collective) A group of songbirds.
  9. verb (intransitive) To talk idly. “They knitted and chattered the whole time.”
  10. verb (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions. “He was so cold that his teeth were chattering.”
  11. verb To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
  12. noun One who chats.
  13. noun (Internet) A user of livestream chat.
  14. noun (Internet) A user of chat rooms.

Synonyms

chattering chatting nattering babble bavardage bibble-babble blab blabber blabbing blather blathering chinwag chit-chat claver clepe gabble hot air mardle natter palaver yak yack yakety-yak cackle click chew the fat shoot the breeze chat confabulate confab

Etymology

From Middle English chateren, from earlier cheteren, chiteren (“to twitter, chatter, jabber”), of imitative origin. Compare Saterland Frisian tjoaterje (“to chatter”), West Frisian tsjotterje (“to chatter”), Dutch schateren, schetteren (“chatter”), Dutch koeteren (“jabber”), Middle Low German kidderen (“to chatter”), German Low German queteln (“to chatter”), dialectal German kaudern (“to gobble (like a turkey)”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter, chirp”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
  2. verb To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
  3. verb To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.
  4. noun Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.

Etymology [Of imitative origin. Cf. Chat, v. i. Chitter.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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