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.

tales

/ˈteɪliːz/ noun

Also a form of tale

Forms talesim taleysim talaisim taleisim

Etymology

From Latin plural of talis (“such (persons)”).

noun Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount.
noun The writ by which such persons are summoned. Tales book, a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales. Blount.

Etymology [L., pl. of talis such (persons).]

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

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

कथामय kathā-maya consisting of tales.
सप्ततिसम्बन्ध saptati-sambandha a collection of 70 tales.
कथासङ्ग्रह kathā-saṅgraha a collection of tales or fables.
पञ्चविंशतिका pañcaviṃśatikā a collection of 25 stanzas or tales, etc.;
पुरावृत्ताख्यानकथन purāvṛttākhyāna-kathana telling old stories, relating tales of the past.
पुरुषपरीक्षा puruṣa-parīkṣā ‘trial of man,’ name of a collection of moral tales.
पञ्चाख्यान pañcākhyāna consisting of five tales; ( am ), n. another name of the Pañca-tantra.
वृहत्कथा vṛhat-kathā ‘the large or extended narrative,’ name of a collection of tales ascribed to Guṇāḍhya, (the Kathā-sarit-sāga…