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.

sounding

/ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of sound

Forms soundings

noun The action of the verb to sound.
adjective Emitting a sound. “The sounding bell woke me up.”
adjective Sonorous.
noun A test made with a probe or sonde.
noun A measured depth of water. “The sailor took a sounding every five minutes”
noun (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
noun The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
noun The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).

Synonyms

From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.

From sound (“measure depths”) + -ing.

adjective Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
noun The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).

Etymology [From Sound to fathom.]

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

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