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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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glint

/ɡlɪnt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms glints glinting glinted

  1. noun A short flash of light, usually when reflected off a shiny surface. “I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.”
  2. noun (obsolete) A brief look; a glance.
  3. adjective (archaic, Shropshire, of a blade) Not sharp; dull. “The knife is glint.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To flash or gleam briefly. “A wedding ring glinted on her finger.”
  5. verb (intransitive, now uncommon) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
  6. verb (transitive) To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
  7. verb (archaic, Shropshire, transitive) To dry; to wither. “The sun glints grass and corn.”

Synonyms

flicker spark glitter glisten gleam shine glance peek

Etymology

15th century. Borrowed from Scots glint, from Middle English glenten (“to shine, gleam; flash”), probably from Old Norse *glenta, from Proto-Germanic *glantijaną, causitive of Proto-Germanic *glintaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Cognate with Danish glente, Swedish glänta, Norwegian Nynorsk gletta (“to peep, look”), Middle High German glinzen; compare also Swedish glinta (“to slip, slide, gleam, shine”), Swedish glimt (“flash, glint, glimpse”), Norwegian Nynorsk glanta, gletta (“to glide, slip”). Reintroduced into literary English by Robert Burns.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.
  2. verb To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
  3. verb To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

Etymology [OE. glent.]

Etymology [OE. glenten. Cf. Glance, v. i., Glitter, v. i.]

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