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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tinkle

/ˈtɪŋkəl/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms tinkles tinkling tinkled

  1. verb (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell. “The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
  3. verb (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling. “The butler tinkled dinner.”
  4. verb To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  5. verb (intransitive, informal) To urinate.
  6. noun A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  7. noun (UK, informal) A telephone call. “Give me a tinkle when you arrive.”
  8. noun (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.
  9. noun (informal, euphemistic) Urine.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

urinate call ring ting tink clink chink

Etymology

From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian tinkelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tinkelen (“to tinkle”), German Low German tinkeln (“to flicker, glitter, sparkle”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. verb To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
  3. verb To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  4. verb To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.

Etymology [Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle.]

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

Sanskrit

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