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

“sparkled” is a form of

sparkle

UK /ˈspɑː.kəl/ · US /ˈspɑɹ.kəl/ noun, verb

Forms sparkles sparkling sparkled sparckle sparcle

  1. noun A little spark; a scintillation.
  2. noun Brilliance; luster. “the sparkle of a diamond”
  3. noun Liveliness; vivacity. “the sparkle of his conversation over dinner”
  4. noun The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.
  5. verb (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles. “The wood was sparkling in the bonfire.”
  6. verb (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle. “The stars sparkle in the sky.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
  8. verb (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce. “sparkling wine”
  9. verb (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
  11. verb (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.

Synonyms

shine glisten scintillate radiate coruscate glitter twinkle spark light coruscation glister scintillation foam froth fizz effervesce form bubbles

Etymology

From Middle English sparkel, sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark + -le (diminutive suffix). In some modern uses deverbal from etymology 2 below.

From Middle English sparklen, sperclen, equivalent to spark + -le (frequentative verb). Cognate with West Frisian sparkelje (“to sparkle”), Dutch sparkelen (“to sparkle”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A little spark; a scintillation.
  2. noun Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond.
  3. verb To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle.
  4. verb To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.

Etymology [Dim. of spark.]

Etymology [See Sparkle, n., Spark of fire.]

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

Sanskrit

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