How do you pronounce Oriole?

What Oriole means?

1 : any of various usually brightly colored Old World passerine birds (family Oriolidae and especially genus Oriolus) 2 : any of various New World passerine birds (genus Icterus of the family Icteridae) of which the males are usually black and yellow or black and orange.

How is a pronounced?

Does anyone know if there are rules governing the pronunciation of “a”? It’s either “AYE” or “UH”, depending on the word following.

How do you pronounce sinuously?