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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squeal

UK /skwiːl/ · US /skwil/ noun, verb

Forms squeals squealing squealed

  1. noun A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
  2. noun The cry of a pig.
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound. “The children squealed with delight while opening their Christmas presents.”
  4. verb To make a squealing noise. (of an object) “The brakes squeal terribly.”
  5. verb (intransitive, slang) To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone. “You'd better not squeal on me to the cops.”

Synonyms

inform grass up snitch oink confess fink

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English squelen, probably from Old Norse skvala (“to squeal, bawl”), from Proto-Germanic *skwel- (“to chatter, babble, scream”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skel-, from *kelh₁- (“to ring, resound, cry”). Compare Old Norse skval (“a squeal”, noun), Swedish skvallra (“to babble, chatter, tell on”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
  2. verb To turn informer; to betray a secret. [Slang]
  3. noun A shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.

Etymology [Of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. sqväla, Norw. skvella. Cf. Squeak, Squall.]

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