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

ramble

/ˈɹæmbəl/ noun, verb

Forms rambles rambling rambled

  1. noun A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
  2. noun A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
  3. noun (mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
  4. noun A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
  5. verb To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
  6. verb To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
  7. verb To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.
  8. verb (often with on, about, or both) To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions. “Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.”
  9. verb To follow a winding path or course. “The river rambled through the mountains.”

Synonyms

drivel sperg meander ramble on jog roll wander swan stray tramp roam cast rove range drift vagabond

Etymology

An altered form (with dissimilation of mm to mb) of dialectal rammle, from Middle English *ramlen, *ramelen, frequentative of Middle English ramen (“to roam, ramble”); compare Swedish ramla (“to stumble; fall; make a noise; rumble”), Danish ramle (“to stumble; collapse; thunder; boom”); equivalent to roam + -le.
"mid-15 c., perhaps frequentative of 'romen' 'to walk, go' perhaps via 'romblen' (late 14 c.) 'to ramble.' The vowel change perhaps by influence of Middle Dutch 'rammelen,' a derivative of 'rammen' 'copulate,' 'used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat.' Meaning 'to talk or write incoherently' is from 1630s".

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
  2. verb To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
  3. noun A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
  4. noun A bed of shale over the seam. Raymond.

Etymology [For rammle, fr. Prov. E. rame to roam. Cf. Roam.]

Etymology [Cf. Rammel.]

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

Sanskrit

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