Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

tole

/tol/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of toll

Forms toles toling toled tollen toll

noun A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.
verb (archaic) To entice; to allure or attract. “It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...”
noun (uncommon) A tola (unit of mass).
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.

From Old English *tyll, related to betyllan (“to allure”) and fortyllan (“to seduce”).

See toll.

* As an English surname, variant of Toll and Towle.
* As an Albanian surname, from a short form of Apostol.

Etymology [OE. tollen to draw, to entice; of uncertain origin. Cf. Toll to ring a bell.]

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