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

sprinkle

/ˈspɹɪŋkəl/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms sprinkles sprinkling sprinkled

  1. verb (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance). “The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it. “The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically. “It sprinkled outside all day long.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside. “It sprinkled very early in the morning.”
  5. verb (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
  6. noun A light covering with a sprinkled substance. “He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.”
  7. noun A light rain shower.
  8. noun An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
  9. noun A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

dust sift sprinkling jimmy scattering sparge scatter dot disperse splash splosh spit spatter patter pitter-patter besprinkle

Etymology

From Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, from Middle Dutch sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
  2. verb To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
  3. verb To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.
  4. verb To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.

Etymology [OE. sprenkelen, freq. of sprengen to sprinkle, to scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to spring, causative of springan to spring; akin to D. sprenkelen to sprinkle, G. sprengen. See Spring, v. i., and cf. Sprent.]

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

Sanskrit

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