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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

puddle

/ˈpʌdəl/ noun, verb

Forms puddles puddling puddled

  1. noun A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
  2. noun (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
  3. noun A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
  4. noun (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
  5. verb To form a puddle.
  6. verb To play or splash in a puddle.
  7. verb (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
  8. verb To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
  9. verb To line a canal with puddle (clay).
  10. verb To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
  11. verb To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
  12. verb To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

Synonyms

pool muddle addle make urinate piddle micturate piss pee pee-pee make water relieve oneself take a leak spend a penny wee wee-wee pass water

Etymology

From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.
  2. noun Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.
  3. verb To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
  4. verb To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure.

Etymology [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.]

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

Sanskrit

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