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

trill

/tɹɪl/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms trills trilling trilled triller trillest

  1. noun (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
  2. noun (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
  3. noun A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.
  4. verb (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
  5. verb (transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill. “to trill a note, or the letter r”
  6. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To trickle. “Whisper'd sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.”
  7. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To twirl.
  8. adjective (African-American Vernacular, slang) True; respected.

Synonyms

chirl chirr quaver warble wobble roll shake

Etymology

From Middle English trillen, from Italian trillo, trillare. Compare German trillern, Norwegian trille, Swedish trilla.

Perhaps identical to Etymology 3, but compare the same sense of drill, and German trillen, drillen.

Probably related to Old English þweran (“to twirl, stir”). Compare twirl, thirl, and Swedish trilla, Norwegian trille, etc.

Perhaps a blend of true + real, or from keep it real, exhibiting the fill–feel merger.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle. Sir W. Scott.
  2. verb To turn round; to twirl. [Obs.] Gascoigne.
  3. verb To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
  4. verb To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

Etymology [OE. trillen to roll, turn round; of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. trilla to roll, Dan. trilde, Icel. þyrla to whirl, and E. thrill. Cf. Thrill.]

Etymology [OE. trillen; cf. Sw. trilla to roll.]

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

Sanskrit

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