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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trifle

/ˈtɹaɪfəl/ noun, verb

Forms trifles trifling trifled

  1. noun (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
  2. noun (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
  3. noun An insignificant amount of money.
  4. noun (figurative) A very small amount (of something).
  5. noun A particular kind of pewter.
  6. noun (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
  7. verb (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth. “You must not trifle with her affections.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
  9. verb (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
  10. verb (transitive) To squander or waste.
  11. verb (transitive, obsolete) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.

Synonyms

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Etymology

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
  2. noun A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
  3. verb To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.
  4. verb To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. trifle, trufle, OF. trufle mockery, raillery, trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being applied to any small or worthless object. See Truffle.]

Etymology [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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