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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trowel

/ˈtɹaʊ.əl/ noun, verb

Forms trowels troweling trowelling troweled trowelled

  1. noun A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
  2. noun A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc. “I need to dig a hole for these begonias; would you pass me that trowel?”
  3. noun A tool used for smoothing a mold.
  4. verb (transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel. “He troweled the coarse mix with a twist, leaving a pattern of arcs.”
  5. verb (transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
  6. verb (colloquial, figurative) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.

Etymology

From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”). Doublet of trullo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
  2. noun A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.

Etymology [OE. truel, OF. truele, F. truelle, LL. truella, L. trulla, dim. of trua a ladle; probably akin to Gr. quirl a stirrer, MHG. twirel, OHG. dwiril, Icel. þvara, AS. þwiril. Cf. Twirl.]

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

Sanskrit

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