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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clatter

UK /ˈklætəː/ · US /ˈklæɾɚ/ verb, noun

Forms clatters clattering clattered

  1. verb (intransitive) To make a rattling sound.
  2. verb (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.
  3. verb (Northern England) To hit; to smack.
  4. noun A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds.
  5. noun A loud disturbance.
  6. noun Noisy talk or chatter.
  7. noun (Ireland, informal) A large group, especially of sibling children; a lot

Synonyms

commotion racket clattering clacking crackling crepitation knocking patter pitter-patter pit-a-pat rapping ratatat rattle rattling roll rubadub tapping clack brattle

Antonyms

snap

Etymology

From Middle English clatren (“to make a rattling sound”), from Old English *clatrian (attested as the Late Old English gerund clatrung), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Dutch klateren, kletteren.
The noun, derived from the verb, is first attested in the 14ᵗʰ century.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
  2. verb To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
  3. verb To make a rattling noise with.
  4. noun A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.

Etymology [AS. cla a rattle, akin to D. klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack.]

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

Sanskrit

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