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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prickle

/ˈpɹɪkəl/ noun, verb

Forms prickles prickling prickled

  1. noun A sharp and often small point, especially that of a plant; a thorn.
  2. noun (botany) A sharp, hard extension of the cortex and epidermis of some plants (such as roses), as distinguished from a thorn.
  3. noun (figuratively) A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
  4. noun (Ulster, in the plural) Gooseflesh.
  5. noun A kind of willow basket.
  6. noun (UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
  7. noun (collective) A group of hedgehogs or porcupines.
  8. verb (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
  9. verb (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.

Synonyms

spine thorn pricker sticker spikelet prick tingle

Etymology

From Middle English prykkyl, prykyl, from Old English pricel, pricels, pricle (“a prickle, sharp point, bit”), from a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *prikislī and *prikil (“prickle”). By surface analysis, prick + -le. Cognate with West Frisian prikel (“goad, prickle”), Dutch prikkel (“sting, prickle, stimulus”), German Low German Prekel (“wooden stick, poker”), Saterland Frisian prikkelje (“to propel, spur on, goad”). First attested in the Old English period.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine. Bacon.
  2. noun A kind of willow basket; --a term still used in some branches of trade. B. Jonson.
  3. verb To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

Etymology [AS. pricele, pricle; akin to LG. prickel, D. prikkel. See Prick, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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