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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jingle

UK /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/ · US /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms jingles jingling jingled gingle Ching-le

  1. noun The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself. “He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.”
  2. noun (music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played. “Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.”
  3. noun (broadcasting, advertising, music) A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial. “That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.”
  4. noun A carriage drawn by horses.
  5. noun (slang) A brief telephone call. “Give me a jingle when you find out something.”
  6. noun A jingle shell.
  7. noun (slang, uncountable) Coin money.
  8. noun (Philippines, slang) Pee, urine.
  9. verb (intransitive) To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. “The beads jingled as she walked.”
  10. verb (transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. “She jingled the beads as she walked.”
  11. verb (dated, intransitive) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
  12. verb (Philippines, colloquial) To pee, to urinate.
  13. proper noun A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

Synonyms

bell ring tinkle jangle doggerel doggerel verse jingle-jangle

Etymology

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靜樂／静乐.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.]
  2. verb To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." Macaulay.
  3. verb To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
  4. noun A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.

Etymology [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle.]

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

Sanskrit

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