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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trundle

/ˈtɹʌndəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms trundles trundling trundled

  1. noun (obsolete) A low wagon or cart on small wheels, used to transport things.
  2. noun (obsolete) A small wheel or roller.
  3. noun A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
  4. noun The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
  5. noun (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
  6. noun (heraldry, rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
  7. verb (transitive) To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily. “Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.”
  8. verb To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
  9. verb (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).
  10. verb (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
  11. verb (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
  12. verb (transitive) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along. “to trundle a hoop or a ball”
  13. verb (intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
  14. proper noun A locality in the Parkes council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

Synonyms

trundle bed truckle bed truckle roll

Etymology

From Middle English trondlin, trondelen, a variation of Middle English trendlen, from Old English trendlian. More at trendle, trindle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A round body; a little wheel.
  2. noun A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
  3. verb To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
  4. verb To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball. R. A. Proctor.

Etymology [AS. tryndel a little shield. See Trend, v. i.]

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