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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trickle

/ˈtɹɪkəl/ noun, verb

Forms trickles trickling trickled

  1. noun A very thin river. “The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.”
  2. noun A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow. “The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.”
  3. verb (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously. “The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.”
  4. verb (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously. “Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.

Synonyms

drip dribble filter

Etymology

From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

Etymology [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. str. See Strike, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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