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.

pricking

/ˈpɹɪkɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of prick

Forms prickings

adjective That pricks; pricky “pricking pains”
noun The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. “The prickings of thorns”
noun (figurative) A sensation that pricks, or causes sharp emotional pain. “the prickings of conscience”
noun The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
noun (mining, archaic) A nicking.
noun (hunting, archaic) The tracking of a hare by its footprints.
noun (obsolete) Dressing oneself for show; prinking.

Synonyms

noun The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. "There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword." Prov. xii. 18 [1583].
noun (a) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

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

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

अर्षणी arṣaṇī a pricking or piercing pain.
आतोदिन् ā-todin striking, pushing, pricking.
तुद् tud (at the end of a comp.) striking, pricking, goading.
निस्तोद nis-toda or nistodana, am, n. pricking, piercing, stinging.
तुद tuda (at the end of a comp.) striking, pricking, stinging, paining, tormenting; ( as ), m., name of a man.
प्रतुद pra-tuda ‘pecker,’ epithet of a class of birds (including the falcon, hawk, owl, parrot, crow, raven, peacock, etc.);…
तोद toda guiding or driving (horses etc.); ‘the instigator and exciter’ (of all nature), an epithet of the Sun; sharp…
वेधन vedhana the act of piercing, perforation; penetration, excavation; puncturing, pricking; wounding; a thrust; depth (…